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The University of Western Australia, through the Graduate School of Education (GSE), and Hong Kong Baptist University , through its Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning , have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote academic and cultural interchange between the two universities.

The GSE has been delivering postgraduate programmes at HKBU since 1999. The new initiative is a pathway for HKBU lecturers to enter the GSE’s Graduate Diploma of Professional Studies in Education or Master of Education with advanced standing.

The Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning, with input from GSE staff, has developed a holistic, professionally relevant and high quality professional development curriculum for HKBU faculty lecturers. Participants who successfully complete the course will be eligible for exemption from one unit of their GSE programme. This means that candidates can complete their course up to three months earlier than normal. They may commence the UWA programme prior to, or while undertaking the professional development course, to get even more of a head start on their studies.

Photos: Professor Franklin Luk, VP (Academic), Hong Kong Baptist University, and Professor Helen Wildy, Dean, Faculty of Education, UWA, at the MOU Exchange Ceremony in Hong Kong, held on Monday 21 February 2011.