Drama Queens

During the COVID-19 pandemic, programmes requiring students to interact with patients were seriously hampered. Zoom consultations helped a little, but they could not effectively replicate being in a clinic with a patient who could be unpredictable or uncommunicative....

Pedal to the Metal

Professor Cecilia KY Chan thrives on being busy. Before the age of 30, while she was assistant professor at an Irish university, she added a Masters in Education to her PhD in Electronic Engineering and at the same time introduced initiatives that vastly increased...

A Head Start on Research

When Cai Xuheng was an undergraduate student in computer science at HKU, he was keen to jump into research – not just as a research assistant, but to lead his own project and develop his own ideas. He got his wish in 2022 when he was accepted to HKU’s Undergraduate...

Art across the Disciplines

Art’s value is usually couched in terms of its aesthetics, but it can also be a window to understanding history, science and technology, the evolution of language and all sorts of disciplines. The problem for Hong Kong students and residents is that there have been...

Educating for the Future

Children with special educational needs (SEN) need extra support throughout their school days. But typically, training for this support has not been offered where it could arguably do the most good – among early childhood educators.Interventions usually work best if...