The Common Core, in support of connecting student learning to the wider world and of the University of Hong Kong’s commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, has aligned courses across all four Areas of Inquiry (AoIs) with appropriate SDGs. This will provide students who are interested with one coherent pathway through the Common Core and will prepare us for a larger discussion about clustering other types of courses or forming a minor in Common Core Interdisciplinary Studies. We are delighted to be aligning with the SDGs! For more information, please see: http://commoncore.hku.hk/sustainable-development-goals/
Message from Curriculum Development and Quality Assurance Section of the Registry
Applications are now invited for the Teaching Exchange Fellowship (TEF) Scheme. The Scheme aims to enhance the scholarship of teaching at the University through enabling academic staff members to share experience and to collaborate on teaching and curriculum development initiatives at reputable universities where excellent pedagogical practices or curriculum innovation are being implemented, and to facilitate reciprocal visits to the University by academic staff of these institutions. The Scheme is a measure also to ensure that our curriculum and pedagogy are benchmarked against international best practice.
All full-time teaching staff with a minimum of two years of service at the University are eligible to apply. Applicants are expected to take a leadership role in curriculum enhancement and pedagogical innovations at the departmental/Faculty level.
Interested colleagues are encouraged to attend the CETL seminars to be held in October 2016 and February 2017. Applications should be submitted to Ms. Julie Lau, Secretary, Teaching and Learning Quality Committee Sub-Group on TEF, c/o Curriculum Development and Quality Assurance Section of the Registry. Applications in 2016-17 will be processed in two rounds with the following deadlines:
1st round – Friday, November 18, 2016
2nd round – Friday, March 17, 2017
