Speakers

Dr Gillian Bickley, Chairman of the Organising Committee of the Symposium, "Learning from the Past, Informing the Future: Education Then, Now and Tomorrow", is an Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, where she has taught for the past twenty years.  She is also the compiler/editor/writer of "The Development of Education in Hong Kong, 1841-1897: as Revealed by the Early Education Reports of the Hong Kong Government, 1848-1896", distributed by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.  She has been researching, writing and lecturing in the area of Hong Kong Government Education for fifteen years and is also the author of the biography of the Founder of Hong Kong Government Education, titled, "The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart, 1836-1889", published by the David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, distributed by Bookazine and the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.  In Hong Kong, she has also taught at the University of Hong Kong (1970-1974), briefly at St Stephen's Girls' College, and, also briefly, at the British Council.  For three years, she was a Subject Officer with the Hong Kong Examinations Authority. Her web page is www.paddyfield.com.hk/authors/gillianbickley/index.html.
 

Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, is Chairman of the English-Speaking Union in Hong Kong and Consultant to the International Examinations Board, Trinity College London.
Dr Bickley retired from the Hong Kong Government as an Assistant Director of Education and Director of the Institute of Language in Education in 1992.  Previously, he served as Director of the East-West Centre's Culture Learning Institute and Full Professor of English at the University of Hawaii.  Earlier in his career, he was a member of the Singapore Education Department and a British Council Officer in Burma (Myanmar), Indonesia and Japan, where he also served as First Secretary in the Cultural Department of the British Embassy.  He is the author of more than twenty textbooks and numerous articles on international education, language and culture and language pedagogy, and is Language Consultant for various Oxford University Press (OUP) textbook series.  In 1985, he established the annual series of international conferences, now known as "ILEC", and the series of publications arising from these conferences.  He also established the Institute of Language in Education Journal (ILEJ), now published as "Asia Pacific Journal of Language in Education" (APJLE).  His most recent book, "Searching for Frederick", is a partly autobiographical guide to life-writing, focusing, in particular, on the Hon. Dr Frederick Stewart, author of many of the Hong Kong Government Education Reports reproduced in "The Development of Education in Hong Kong 1841-1897: as Revealed by the Early Education Reports of the Hong Kong Government, 1848-1896".  Dr Bickley has a particular interest in curriculum reform.  He was a member of the Ford Foundation Curriculum Development Project group in Indonesia and, for some years, was leader of the American team that participated in the five nation (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Japan and the United States) "Pacific Circle" curriculum development project, sponsored by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). His web page is http://www.paddyfield.com.hk/authors/vernerbickley/index.html.
 

Dr Beatrice Cabau-Lampa  is an Assistant-Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University (Department of Government and International Studies, European Studies, French Stream).  She was awarded a Doctorat en Didactique des Langues et des Cultures mention tres honorable avec les felicitations du jury (PhD in Education of Languages and Cultures, obtained with distinction and highly commended), BA in English; BA in German, a Master's degree in French as a Foreign Language, at Universite de La Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III.  She was twice granted a scholarship from the Swedish Institute of Stockholm in order to carry out her research in Sweden about Swedish Language Policy and Language Education.  Her publications include: "L'enseignement des Langues-Cultures en Suede; un enjeu multidimensionnel" ("Languages and Cultures Teaching in Sweden; a Multidimensional Stake") (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Lille, 1998); "Decisive Factors for Language Teaching in Sweden" (in "Educational Studies", CARFAX, Volume 25, No. 2, July 1999) and "Foreign Language Teaching in Sweden: a long tradition" ("Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research", CARFAX, Vol. 43, No. 4, December 1999).
 

Dr David Carless is a Senior Lecturer in the English Department of the Hong Kong  Institute of Education.  He holds a BA from the University of Kent, a PGCE from the University of Wolverhampton, an MA from the University of Birmingham and a PhD from the University of Warwick.  He has taught in secondary schools in England and France, and primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong.  He has been working in Hong Kong  since 1988 and his experience encompasses various levels of education from primary to university and adult education.  His main areas of specialism are the implementation of educational change, teacher development and the use of assessment to enhance learning.  He has published extensively on these topics in local and international journals. E-mail address: <dcarless@ied.edu.hk>
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Dr Simon S. C. CHAU was born and grew up in Hong Kong.  After graduating from the University of Hong Kong, he worked as school teacher, editor, graphic designer, public relations officer, instructional television producer and presenter, newspaper columnist, radio talk show host, and freelance translator and interpreter.  He is now Head of the Translation Programme at Hong Kong Baptist University.  Aspiring to transform the gray culture in this part of the world, he co-founded three organisations: Green Power (1988) to promote green living, Produce Green Foundation (1989) to promote eco-friendly farming, and the Vegetarian Society of Hong Kong (1995) to promote green diets.  The ninety-one books he has published to date include topics ranging from ecological concerns to organic farming, consumer ethics, green education, diet, health issues and healing, concern for the South, animal rights, marital counseling, social criticism, meditation, qigong, mind power, spirituality, fables, poetry, and the art and business of translating.  For more information regarding the various programmes run by him and his colleagues, visit <http://www.simonchau.cc>.
 

Dr Jeffrey Day, Associate Professor in Curriculum Studies (Science), was a research biologist who became an educator in 1973.  He taught in the United Kingdom for twelve years, taking a keen interest in liberalising science teaching.  In Hong Kong since 1984, he taught in an international school with forty home languages on campus, all students learning through English.  He then moved to The University of Hong Kong where he is Associate Professor in Curriculum and Educational Studies, Faculty of Education, focusing on biology and health education.  He has worked extensively with the Hong Kong Government Education Department and the Hong Kong Examinations Authority in areas of curriculum development.  He is pleased to see ongoing attempts to reform the Hong Kong school curriculum, but is concerned that the tendency towards the development of conforming rote learners has become embedded, so that as a result of University expansion, deeper learning potential has been lost by many students.  Teachers in all school subjects and in tertiary institutions must try to re-awaken that potential.  Hence his work now focuses on making effective that realization in beginning school teachers and also in raising tertiary teachers' awareness of how the students they now teach may be better enabled to learn than in the elite years before 1986.  His web page is <http://www.hku.hk/curric/jday/>. E-mail address: <jrday@hku.hk>
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Professor Wimal Dissanayake teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.  He is also a member of the graduate faculty of the University of Hawaii and an Adjunct Fellow at the East West Center in Hawaii.  He has been a Visiting Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.  Wimal Dissanayake is the author and editor of over thirty scholarly books, including, "Melodrama and Asian Cinema" (Cambridge University Press), "New Chinese Cinema" (Oxford University Press), "Global/Local" (Duke University Press) and "Narratives of Agency" (University of Minnesota Press).  He is currently an editor of a series of books on Hong Kong Cinema to be published by the Hong Kong University Press.
 

Geoffrey Emerson was born in the United States, in upstate New York, and came to Hong Kong in 1964 to teach history and English at St Paul's College, where he was Vice Principal from 1972 to 1984, when he resigned.  He then worked for two years on the Yangtse River in China as Sinologist and Cruise Director for Lindblad Travel.  He returned to St Paul's in 1986 to teach English and also was Careers Master from 1992 until his retirement in 2000.  Mr Emerson was President of the Hong Kong History Society from 1974 to 1984 and a founding member of the Hong Kong Heritage Society.  He has a BA in History from Hamilton College, an MA in Education from New York University, and an MPhil in Modern Chinese History from the University of Hong Kong as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE).  The topic of his MPhil thesis is a history of Stanley Internment Camp, Hong Kong, 1942-1945.  Mr Emerson ("English Unlimited") can be contacted at GPO Box 3605, Hong Kong. Tel: 2550 4374, e-mail address: <emerson@netvigator.com>.
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Peter Etherton has been writing English-language materials since first coming to teach at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1968.  He has written over one hundred and thirty textbooks, including complete primary and secondary series, skills development books in all four skills areas, graded readers, exam preparation books and teacher-training material.  His courses include "Oxford Primary English" and "Oxford English" (with Gordon MacArthur) for Oxford University Press.  He has an MA in twentieth century literature from the University of London and an MA in Linguistics for English Language Teaching from the University of Lancaster.  He has balanced his writing commitments with frequent returns to the classroom, and has taught at many schools and colleges.  He was a British Council English Language Specialist at King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, and subsequently the Director of the Centre for English as a Foreign Language at Taunton School.  In his work as a Director of Etherton Education, he is involved in designing and running innovative English-language enhancement courses in the United Kingdom for students and teachers from Hong Kong and China.  The company is interested in forming partnerships with schools and institutions to develop specialist courses in the United Kingdom.  The website www.ethertoneducation.com provides further information and contact details.
 

Fang Jun obtained his PhD from the University of Toronto and is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.  One of his research interests is Hong Kong education history, especially teacher education history.  His publications include four edited books, and more than forty articles.  These include "An Oral History of Hong Kong's Colleges of Education" (mid-2002, forthcoming) and articles on the history of the Government Normal School (1881-83), Taipo Vernacular Normal School (1926-41), and Rural Training College (1946-54) as well as a conference paper on the history of the Vernacular Normal School for Women (1920-41).
 

Fok Shui Che is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education Management and Professional Support, The Hong Kong Institute of Education).  She has good experience in the field of Civic and Moral Education and she is presently a member of the Civic and Moral Education Committee of the Curriculum Development Council under the Government of the Hong Kong SAR Education Department.  She is one of the tutors for Values Education courses organized by the Hong Kong International Institute of Educational Leadership and has been a lecturer on Civic Education courses for teachers organized by the Education Department.  Her research, publications and papers include: "Human Rights Education: The Hong Kong Perspective" ("Asia Pacific Education Review", Vol. 2, July 2001, The Institute of Asia Pacific Education Development, Seoul National University), and "The Political Change in Hong Kong and Its Implications for Civic Education" ("The Journal of Moral Education", March 1997).  She is Co-Chief Investigator of "A Study of Curriculum Approaches to Moral/Civic Education in Primary and Junior Secondary Schools in Hong Kong", Consultant for the Quality Education Fund (QEF) Project, "Development of Critical Thinking (Civic Education) SKH Bishop Mok Sau Tseng Secondary School", and Convenor, Special Interest Group on civic/moral education at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
 

Dr Victor Forrester is a member of the Department of Education Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University and has been actively involved in teacher training within Hong Kong since 1989 -  initially at Grantham College of Education, then at the Hong Kong Institute of Education and most recently on the Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) programmes offered at Hong Kong Baptist University.  He has given presentations at numerous local, Mainland China and International Conferences -  most recently representing the Hong Kong Education Research Association (HKERA) as Chair and presenter at the American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference in New Orleans, April 2002. A list of Dr Forrester's publications is available on request.  Dr Forrester particularly invites contact with educationalists who may share his current interests in researching any of the following three topics, within the context of Hong Kong education: change management, learner motivation and the gender effect.  E-mail address: <vforrest@hkbu.edu.hk>.
 

Mr Vincent H. Y. Fung, JP, is a career civil servant of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government.  He has had extensive working experience in various policy bureaux and Government departments, and currently he is District Officer of Sham Shui Po District, responsible for the management and the general well-being of the district and the residents living there.  Mr Fung received his education at the University of Hong Kong and Oxford University.  As a core member of St Paul's College Alumni Association, he was the Chairman of the Organizing Committee of his Alma Mater's 150th Anniversary celebrations.  In this connection, he became editor-in-chief of the book "From Devotion to Plurality: A full history of St Paul's College 1851 - 2001", and hence acquired unique experience in doing historical research relating to secondary schools in Hong Kong.
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Professor Anthony J Hedley, MD, is a graduate in medicine of the Universities of Aberdeen and Edinburgh.  In his early career he specialized in internal medicine, endocrinology and diabetes, before moving to the field of public health and preventive medicine.  He was professor of public health in the University of Glasgow from 1983-88, and in 1988 became head of the Department of Community Medicine in the University of Hong Kong and honorary consultant to the Department of Health and the Hospital Authority.  His main areas of interest and research include the health effects of tobacco use and air pollution; the evaluation of health care delivery and postgraduate medical education.  His perspectives on undergraduate medical education are based on his role as a teacher in six medical schools over a period of thirty-seven years.
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Mr IP Cho-yin joined the Board of Education in July 1998.  An active member of the Board, he has put forward many constructive suggestions and helped the Board in giving its full support to current education reforms.  He is now the Convenor of the Task Force on the Promotion of  "Learning through Reading" and a member of the Sub-committee on School Principals' Professional Development set up under the Board.  As a secondary school principal, he is also keen on promoting the all-round development of students in order to prepare them to meet the needs and challenges of the current knowledge economy.
 

Bjorn Jernudd is a Chair Professor of Linguistics at Hong Kong Baptist University, having joined the University ten years ago. A member of the very first generation of sociolinguists, he contributed a paper on, "The [R]Evolution of Sociolinguistics", to the volume, "The Early Days of Sociolinguistics: Memories and Reflections" (Christina Bratt Paulson and G. Richard Tucker, editors; 1997).  Relying on his experience from what was then thirty years of active study of language planning processes, he reflected on, "Coexisting realities in language planning",  in a symposium held in Antwerp in 1995 on the politics of multilingualism and language planning ("Antwerp Papers in Linguistics", No. 87, 1996).  In this, he outlined a motivated succession of interests in managing language in modernizing states and demonstrated the coexistence at a given time in scholarship and language management of stages in that succession.
 

Professor Kerry Kennedy is a graduate of Stanford University (MA, PhD), the University of New South Wales (BA, MEd) and the University of New England.  Currently he is Head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The Hong Kong Institute of Education.  Prior to that he was Professor of Education and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Canberra.  He was previously Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Canberra and before that he was Director of the Centre for Continuing Education at the Australian National University and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Southern Queensland.  From 1985-1990 he was Assistant Director of the Australian Government's Curriculum Development Centre.  His publications include "Citizenship Education and the Modern State" (1997, Editor), "Curriculum Construction" (1999, Co-author), "Celebrating Student Learning - Assessment and Reporting" (2001, Co-Author) and "Beyond the Rhetoric: Building a Teaching Profession to Support Quality Teaching" (2001, Editor).
 

Dr Lai Kwok Chan is currently Head of Planning and Academic Implementation at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, supporting the Institute's academic planning, strategic planning and academic manpower planning.  He has been a school teacher, an Inspector of Schools at the Hong Kong Government's Education Department, a Principal Lecturer at a College of Education, and the Head of the Department of Social Studies at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.  His current research work includes the analysis of teacher demand and supply, the attractiveness of teaching as a career, international trends in teacher education, and the contextual factors that influence institutional development.  Recently, he completed a commission from the Education Department on policy as to graduate teachers in Hong Kong primary schools.  He has published widely in international journals on this topic as well as on geographical fieldwork and experiential learning.
 

Miss Jessica S. K. LAU is Senior Assistant Archivist at the Hong Kong Public Records Office (HKPRO), where she is responsible for managing research and reference materials and developing publicity programmes.  Miss Lau has been actively involved in promoting the use of archives in the classroom and developing teaching resources for secondary school teachers.  She earned her BA at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Master in Librarianship from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom.
 

Elaine Leung is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Paddyfield.com, one of Asia's leading online booksellers of English-language books and fastest-growing Internet firms.  Elaine is also a Director of The Hong Kong International Literary Festival Limited, the organiser of the annual Standard Chartered International Literary Festival.  Paddyfield runs many programmes in and for Hong Kong schools, including the Youth section of the International Literary Festival and the Authors in the Schools programme (www.paddyfield.com.hk/authors/schools).  Elaine is a respected local expert on children's books and a frequent speaker at Hong Kong schools and libraries.  She is featured every two weeks on Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK).  Paddyfield is the main supporter of the Asian Review of Books (<http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com>) and has a sister company in Chameleon Press (<http://www.chameleonpress.com>), which is now developing a line of children's English-language readers suited for local children.  Elaine attended Diocesan Girls' School, Hong Kong, before completing her education in Canada.
 

Ms LEUNG Wai Ha is a Senior Language Instructor at the Centre for Language in Education, The Hong Kong Institute of Education.  She is a graduate of the University of Hong Kong, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree (Chinese Language and Literature), a Certificate in Education and a Master of Education degree.  During eight years of secondary school teaching, she recognized her interest in Psychology and took up a Bachelor Degree course in Psychology at Macquarie University, Australia.  After that, she joined the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, as a Research Assistant, involved in research relating to Chinese Language Benchmarking (including Putonghua).  She also assisted in curriculum review including that of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PCEd) Programme.  Then, in 1998, she joined the Hong Kong Institute of Education as a Language Instructor.  Two of her research projects are: "A Study of the Basic Chinese Language Competency of Hong Kong Primary Students", and "Assessment of Chinese Language Basic Competency of Hong Kong Secondary School Graduates".  She enjoys teaching in the Institute because she has a chance to communicate directly with the students and make full use of her training.
 

Dr Clayton G. MacKenzie, Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University, came to Hong Kong in 1993.  He obtained his Doctorate in Literature and a Master's degree in Curriculum Studies from the University of Glasgow.  A school teacher by training and inclination, he has taught at secondary schools in Africa and in Scotland, and at primary schools in Trinidad and in England.  From 1983 to 1989 he was leader of the English Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) teacher training team at Christ Church University College, England. From 1990 to 1993 he was Head of Education (Primary and Secondary) at St Mary's University College, a campus of the University of Surrey, England.  His publications include children's novels, critical books, and numerous articles in journals of international reputation, including "Comparative Education", "International Review of Education", "Curriculum", "The New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies", "Education", "The Journal of Community Education", "Primary Teaching Studies", "Practical English Teaching", "Multicultural Teaching", and "The British Journal of Educational Studies".
 

Danny Shiu Lam Paau is Professor of History and former head of the Department of History at Hong Kong Baptist University.  He received his B.A.(Hons) degree in History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, his M.A. and doctoral degree from the University of Georgia, USA and a teacher's certificate from the Sir Robert Black College of Education, Hong Kong.  Professor Paau is well acquainted with teaching at both secondary school and university levels.  Before completing his college degree, he served for ten years as a full-time teacher and subject panel chair in a secondary school in Hong Kong.  Subsequently, he has taught for about twenty years at university level, including four years in the USA.  His commitment to education is reflected in the fact that he has delivered lectures and training seminars for serving teachers sponsored by the Education Department.  Professor Paau specializes in the history of Sino-Western relations, including Sino-American Relations.  Among the subjects he teaches are also Republican China and Current Issues in China and Hong Kong.  He has published seven books and about forty articles, presented about seventy papers at international conferences, and lectured about eighty times at institutions such as Beijing University, the University of California, the Russian Academy of Science, the Australian National University, the Foreign Affairs College (of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Beijing) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.  He has served as advisor or consultant to local and overseas institutions, including the Chinese National Research Society of Modern World History and the Center for the Study of Intelligence and Wisdom (USA).  He has recently received the 2002 Hong Kong Baptist University President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work.
 

Dr  Lauren Pfister is an Associate Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University, where he has taught since 1987.  Currently he teaches classes for the Religion and Philosophy Department as well as the Humanities Course.  His special interests are in 19th century Ruist ("Confucian")-Christian dialogue, the development of modern sinology, post-traditional Chinese philosophy, and studies in Chinese Christianity.  He serves as an Associate Editor of the "Journal of Chinese Philosophy", is on the editorial boards of the "Journal of the History of Christianity in Modern China" (HK) as well as "Xueshu jilin" (Shanghai), and is a Research Associate of the Sino-Christian Research Centre located at Hong Kong Baptist University.
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Lucy SIU (Department of Educational Psychology, Counselling and Learning Needs, The Hong Kong Institute of Education) has been involved in Teacher Education since 1984 and is now mainly teaching Psychology of Learning.
 

Revd Carl Smith is an independent researcher in the history of Hong Kong and Macau, so generous with his collected research notes, that he has been thanked, probably more than any other local scholar, in the books others have written in the English language about Hong Kong.  His own published work includes "Chinese Christians: Elites, Middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong" (Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1985) and "A Sense of History: Studies in the Social and Urban History of Hong Kong" (Hong Kong Educational Publishing Co., 1995), which gathers together essays published between 1969 and 1990.  Born in the USA, he is a Life Vice-President of the Royal Asiatic Society (Hong Kong Branch).
 

Derrick Stone originates from Canada where he did his graduate work in English Language and Literature at Memorial University of Newfoundland.  Since coming to Hong Kong in 1998 he has developed an expertise in the area of Multimedia Education, and has published several articles and given seminars and conference papers on this topic. As well as course development for students for whom success is vital ("High-Stakes" courses), his other areas of interest include Listening to English, Reading Skills and Cultural Integration for Mainland Chinese Students.  He is currently co-coordinator of the Language Proficiency Course for Teachers of English, Information Technology (IT) and Multimedia Consultant for the Centre for Advancement of English for Professionals (CAEP) as well as Director of the Summer English Immersion Programme at Hong Kong Baptist University.
 

Dr Peter Storey is a Principal Lecturer in the English Department of the Hong Kong Institute of Education, as well as Associate Dean of the School of Languages in Education, and Head of the Centre for Language in Education. He was Principal Investigator of the SCOLAR-commissioned Monitoring and Evaluation of the Native English Teacher Scheme.
 

Dr Anthony Sweeting is currently an Honorary Professor in the History Department, as well as an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre of Asian Studies, at the University of Hong Kong, having recently retired as a Professor in that University's Department of Curriculum Studies.  He has published extensively on the History of Education in Hong Kong, education policy, and comparative education.  Probably his best known books are "Education in Hong Kong, Pre-1842 to 1942: Fact and Opinion" (Hong Kong University Press, 1990), and "A Phoenix Transformed: the Reconstruction of Education in Post-War Hong Kong" (Oxford University Press, 1993).  More recently, he completed a commission from the Education and Manpower Branch of the Hong Kong Government on education policy in Hong Kong, 1955-1991 and he is currently completing the sequel to "Education in Hong Kong, Pre-1842 to 1942", which will take the study up to the beginning of the new millennium.  In several recent journal articles, he criticizes a trend towards a-historicism among policy-makers in Hong Kong.
 

Julia Wan is a consultant in the use of Creative English teaching.  Her ideas of teaching English creatively through stories, poetry, drama and creative writing have been pilot-tested and are now being practised in many primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong.  Her presentations, research and publications, for the past several years, are in this area of interest.  In March 2002, she received a Certificate of Commendation from the District Teacher Network Scheme (DTNS) for her project, sponsored by the Quality Education Fund (QEF) in 1998, entitled "Creative English: An English Enhancement Programme for Primary School Pupils", conducted at Methodist School.  From 16 March to 4 May 2002, the DTNS is promoting this project in a Roving Exhibition.  After receiving her BA (magna cum laude) from the University of Massachusetts and an MPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford, Mrs Wan was an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University, from 1982 to 1997.  At present, her teaching involvement at the University is on a part-time basis.
 

Mrs Elena Kho Wang is currently a lecturer and language and communication counsellor at the Centre for Language in Education at the Hong Kong Institute of Education.  She teaches in the English enhancement programme.  She has worked with individuals with language learning difficulties in the USA and in Hong Kong in her work in speech pathology, special education, remedial reading and ESL.
 

Patricia Warren (Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University) has worked as a teacher of English since 1986, dealing with a variety of subjects in the field of English for Foreign Learners (EFL), including English for Academic Purposes, Business English, English Pronunciation and English for Young Learners.  She has taught in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, for the British Council in Ecuador and for the Overseas Development Agency (ODA) in China.  She was awarded a Postgraduate Certificate of Education (English as a Second Language/English as a Foreign Language (ESL/EFL)) at Manchester University and a Master of Education (Language Teaching) degree at Exeter University.  She is currently the coordinator of the English for Academic Purposes Course (Communication) and the Language Proficiency Course for Teachers of English at Hong Kong Baptist University.  Her areas of interest are English pronunciation, assessment, and materials development.
 

Dr Timothy Man-kong Wong is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and a Research Fellow of the Modern History Research Centre, both at Hong Kong Baptist University.  His research in the area of the history of education in Hong Kong includes: the involvement of the Church in the provision of public education, medical education, the changes in education since the 1980s, and a study of the life and work of eminent educators.