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香港教育大學亞洲及政策研究學系公共行政學研究講座教授張炳良教授出席由美國TransitCenter主辦的網上研討會，主題為“Transit and COVID-19: The Hong Kong Story”。香港經過2003年沙士一役後，在新冠肺炎疫情中成為其中一個迅速應對疫情的城市。但在去年示威浪潮及新冠肺炎疫情雙重夾擊下，港鐵面對嚴重的財政壓力，而張教授在研討會上談及到港鐵如何應對疫情。 請瀏覽TransitCenter Facebook專頁觀看研討會錄影：https://bit.ly/37D5ARo。

The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) announced the result of the President’s Awards for Outstanding Performance 2019/20 on 22 May 2020. Two faculty members of the Department of Asian and Policy Studies (APS) have been conferred with this prestigious awarded in the domains of teaching and research, respectively. This year, a total of 32 nominations, consisting of 10 nominations for the Teaching domain, 11 nominations for the Research domain, 8 nominations for the Knowledge Transfer domain, and 3 nominations for the Administrative Services domain, have been received. All the nominations have gone through stringent selection by respective Selection Panels comprising lay Council Members, colleagues from sister universities, staff and student representatives, as well as past Award Recipients, according to a set of comprehensive assessment criteria. 

Outstanding Performance in Teaching

Dr Isabella NG Fung-Sheung Associate Head of Department of Asian and Policy Studies (Teaching and Learning) Assistant Professor The President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching was established to recognize and reward excellence in teaching by individual academic staff or teams and to emphasize the University’s commitment to fostering teaching innovation and excellence, enhancing students learning, and providing teaching scholarships. Dr Isabella Ng Fung-sheung, Assistant professor of APS has been awarded the Presidents’ Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching. Trained as a feminist anthropologist, she applies her research approach to teaching by engaging students in long-term community, policy and research work. Her research training facilitated her adoption of her 3Cs approach – Collaboration, Co-production and Camaraderie – as a way of combining training in the tangible skills of co-construction and application of knowledge, and the intangible personal attributes of resilience, compassion, passion, love and empathy. Dr Ng’s teaching philosophy is “Teaching without borders”. She has applied this philosophy by 1) leading her students to work on and in the local community and communities far and wide; 2) encouraging students of diverse backgrounds to engage with marginalized communities; and 3) exposing students to real-life learning by participating in real-life policy advocacy and lobbying processes. She and her students have worked with walled villagers, Thai migrants, and asylum-seekers and refugees in Hong Kong, as well as displaced persons in Thailand and Myanmar. She co-founded a non-government organisation (NGO) with asylum-seekers and students in 2014. Through her engagement with the refugee community, she has co-produced and published journal articles and the first Chinese book on asylum-seeker and refugee issues in Hong Kong, in collaboration with her students. She was the first academic to lead a team of students to prepare and present policy submissions in Hong Kong Legislative Council Public Hearings. Within the University, Dr Ng developed the popular Communication Studies in Policy and Governance minor, which promotes integrating communication studies as an integral part of contemporary policy studies and advocacy, a crucial element overlooked in the local higher-education curriculum. In 2013, she obtained a Teaching Development Grant to develop a web portal to engage students in instant forum discussions and reflective learning, and to use media tools and strategies to actively engage in policy and social issues. To live up to her philosophy of “Teaching without borders”, Dr Ng has been training academics in universities in Myanmar and giving talks locally and internationally on refugee issues. She has also worked with the United Nations and international NGOs to combat negative narratives about migrants. She received the 2019 “Good Teacher Award” from Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union for her dedication and commitment to learning and teaching.  

Outstanding Performance in Research (Research Excellence Award) 

Dr Alex HE Jingwei Associate Head of Department of Asian and Policy Studies (Research and Development) Associate Professor The President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research was established to honour research excellence exhibited by individual academic staffs or teams and to recognise, encourage and reward outstanding research of significant benefit to the wider community. Dr Alex HE Jingwei, Associate Professor of APS, has been awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research (Research Excellence Award). Dr He’s main research areas are public policy analysis, health policy and reforms, and comparative social policy. As Principal Investigator, Dr He secured funding from the Early Career Scheme (ECS), the General Research Fund (GRF), the Public Policy Research (PPR) Funding Scheme, and the World Health Organization (WHO) in the past five years. Success in these external grant applications is a good indication of the recognition of Dr He’s significant contribution to social policy research in urban China and Hong Kong, and strong evidence-based policy recommendations. Dr He is prolific researcher, with 23 research outputs in the past three years, including 14 journal articles, four book chapters and one edited book. He was the first author or corresponding author in all these publications. Dr He’s specialisation in social policy and health governance with an East Asian focus has been widely recognized. In July 2019, he was selected as a core member of the research consortium of The Asia-Pacific Observatory (APO) on Health Systems and Policies of the WHO. This achievement not only served as a strong testament to Dr He’s academic excellence, but also increased the exposure of EdUHK in the international health care community. He has demonstrated outstanding research leadership in the broader academic community, serving as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Asian Public Policy and Executive Member of the East Asian Social Policy Network. In addition to his research achievements, Dr He is devoted to the promotion of a research culture in both EdUHK and the broader academic community. He has held key administrative roles in his Department, where he is the Associate Head and Chair of the Departmental Research Committee. Since 2016, he has run an annual public policy summer school series, which attracted hundreds of young scholars and research students from Hong Kong, the Mainland, Taiwan, Macau and overseas. Striving to make impact for the betterment of the society with his research, Dr He enthusiastically participates in policy advocacy. He has contributed to raising public awareness of health-reform options through extensive media engagements in Hong Kong and China.   In view of the current pandemic, the President’s Awards Presentation Ceremony for this year has been postponed and combine it with the one in the next year. Since the launched of the President’s Awards in 2011/12, several members of the APS have been awarded.

(星島日報報道)「一帶一路」沿線國家哈薩克斯坦是中亞地區最大的經濟體，教育大學通識教育榮譽文學士畢業生在機

Professor Woo Chi-keung at the Department of Asian and Policy Studies (APS) of the Education University of Hong Kong has been awarded HK$ 586,040 under the Research Funding Scheme 2020-2021 of the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office, Hong Kong SAR Government for his project of Performance-based Regulation of Mass Transit Railway’s Reliability Performance.

面對日益複雜的社會挑戰，各個領域對公共政策及管理人才的需求不斷增加，亦有不少高級公務人員選擇出國進修。每年來到香港教育大學攻讀公共政策及管理碩士課程(MPPM)的學生中，都有若干位國際生。2019年，來自泰國的現職公務員Nitikon Jirathitikankit (Nitikon)也踏上了香港的土地。這位泰國公務員體系中的「明日之星」拿到了教大亞洲及政策研究學系的全額獎學金，開始了他在香港為期一年的求學之旅。來港前，Nitikon已在泰國不同大學分別修讀政治學本科、法律本科及比較政治學碩士，亦到拿到了英國列斯大學(University of Leeds，亦譯稱利茲大學)的國際關係碩士學位。對於這樣一位已在泰國政府部門服務超過十年的公務員來說，為何要遠赴香港，來到教大去攻讀他的第三個碩士學位呢？

Q1. 請簡單介紹一下你的職業 

在出國讀書前，我已經在泰國憲法法院的憲法研究和發展部擔任學術主任有十一年時間。主要職責是世界各地的憲法比較、公法及憲法法院權力相關研究。除此之外，亦參與法院的學術文章及書籍出版工作。   

Q2. 如何得知亞洲及政策研究學系的MPPM課程？為何會選擇修讀MPPM？ 

我在泰國那黎宣大學(Naresuan University)完成政治學本科課程，當時學校與亞洲及政策研究學系簽定合作協議，而我的老師──現任社會科學學院院長Napisa Waitoolkiat教授推薦我申請MPPM。學系向我提供全額的入學獎學金，給我機會強化自己在公共政策與管理方面的學術訓練，這對我的職業發展有莫大幫助。MPPM課程提供不同範疇的科目，例如公共政策及公共行政的基礎知識。即使我曾修讀政治學，但很多知識都已忘記。因此MPPM對有意了解公共政策、公共管理理論和方法的學生十分有用，我已經把課程推介給有意進修的泰國朋友及同事。   就我而言，學校及學系對於我們這些對香港完全陌生的國際學生提供充足支援，即便在這段困難時期他們也對同學提供持續的幫助和照顧。學校致力將學生安全及學業發展放在首位，同時學系的老師也盡力確保在疫情期間教學質素不受影響。教大的校園非常寧靜，即使我住在校外，所有面授暫停，但我依然選擇回來學習，因為大學優良的環境為我提供學習的動力。   

Q3. MPPM的課程如何幫助到你的職業發展？ 

這個課程拓寬了我的視野。作為泰國的公務員，當然對自己國家的公共行政瞭如指掌，但對外國的情況就未必了解。由Darryl Jarvis教授指導的“Public Administration and Management in Asia”正為我補充這方面的知識。Jarvis教授利用不少實際例子講解抽象的概念，例如印尼政府透過私營化方式管理水電等公用事業。這些例子讓我更了解何謂公共行政，亦可從這些例子中獲得借鑒參考。如有機會，亦可引用這些案例向泰國的上司提出建言，以改善公共部門的績效。   我不只在MPPM中獲取知識，同時亦提高了人際交往技巧。課程作業大多數以小組形式進行，因此我有不少機會同來自不同背景的同學合作，學習如何交換意見及從不同角度思考以達成共識。這些技巧對我的職業發展，甚至我的人生都有莫大幫助。   

Q4. 你會如何評價泰國和香港的學習模式？ 

我對於香港這裡的師生關係感到驚嘆。在泰國，學生與老師之間通常都會保持一定距離並會對他們畢恭畢敬。而在香港的大學，師生之間關係非常平等，我們能夠以不同方式聯絡所有老師，師生關係十分親密。此外，老師在課前就已經安排大量閱讀書目，讓我們對課堂內容先有基本掌握。學校方面，圖書館提供大量資源，例如世界頂尖期刊電子資料庫，是我們課堂報告或研究論文的寶貴資源。 

Q5. 平常如何渡過課餘時間？ 

我平常會到由伍鳳嫦博士創立的香港尋求庇護者及難民協會(Hong Kong Society for Asylum-seekers and Refugees)擔任義工，讓我有深入香港社會的寶貴機會。泰國的公務員通常只會在辦公室工作，但在伍博士的NGO裡，讓我發掘到香港鮮為人知的一面。同時，透過義工活動，我也認識到一班尋求庇護者及難民朋友，用心感受如何與香港不同背景的人士溝通。 

教協報日前專訪亞洲及政策研究學系助理教授伍鳳嫦博士。在報道中提及伍博士透過學者及老師身份將研究及社會工作結合，成立香港尋求庇護者及難民協會，並建立唱遊班幫助因國籍問題而未能上學的小孩。專訪全文請瀏覽：https://issuu.com/hkptu/docs/704ptunews/12。 

近日，香港教育大學亞洲及政策研究學系公共政策及管理碩士副課程主任肖漢宇博士接受《明報》訪問，談及年輕人的職業規劃，公共政策及管理碩士課程的特色與該課程如何幫助有志於將來從事與公共政策相關的職業的年輕人。我們將報導稍微整理，與朋友們分享，希望能夠讓更多的朋友瞭解我們系公共政策及管理碩士課程，以及幫助年輕人更好找到未來職業發展方向。

詳情：https://jupas.mingpao.com/postgrad/%E9%9D%92%E5%B9%B4%E4%B8%8D%E5%86%8D%E6%94%BF%E6%B2%BB%E5%86%B7%E6%84%9F-%E7%A0%94%E5%85%AC%E5%85%B1%E6%94%BF%E7%AD%96%E9%80%A0%E6%99%82%E5%8B%A2/ 

香港教育大學除了提供師範培訓以外，亦開辦社會科學等課程。其中包括由亞洲及政策研究學系開辦的公共政策及管理碩士(Master of Public Policy and Management, MPPM)。課程著重理論與實踐結合教學模式，涉獵廣泛公共政策元素。另外，課程提供三大專業方向讓學員自由選擇，分別為管治及公共管理；社會政策；以及高等教育政策。 對於現時愈來愈多年青人投身政府部門甚至從政，公共政策及管理碩士副課程主任肖漢宇博士指年青人參政需要三大能力：首先要深入瞭解政策過程，培養自身分析能力及批判思維；其次要深入社區，理解市民需要；最後，以全球化角度思考問題，加以不同學科及背景的角度分析。課程其中一個必修科目「戰略溝通」教導學員與公眾及傳媒溝通，亦是現時公共部門需要改進之處。 肖博士亦表示課程有四大特色：

• 課程設計方向的集中政策研究，討論及比較不同國家的社會及公共政策；
• 學系與逾50間機構合作，為學員提供實習機會，合作機構包括：香港紅十字會、香港美國商會等；

• 學系安排學員到不同政府部門及機構採訪，讓學員瞭解相關政策運行，如立法會、房委會、醫管局等，另定期邀請前政府官員或學者到校舉辦講座
• 學系非常鼓勵學員積極參與公共政策分析比賽，以訓練學員政策分析能力。
• 課程為優秀學員提供獎學金，包括：公共政策與管理碩士學術獎學金及公共政策與管理碩士非本地學生住宿獎學金。

課程查詢方式： 網址：https://www.eduhk.hk/aps/mppm 

電話：(852) 2948 7845 

電郵：mppm@eduhk.hk 

微信：apsmaster 

本文轉載自明報《青年不再政治冷感        研公共政策造時勢》一文，略有刪改。 原文: https://jupas.mingpao.com/postgrad/%E9%9D%92%E5%B9%B4%E4%B8%8D%E5%86%8D%E6%94%BF%E6%B2%BB%E5%86%B7%E6%84%9F-%E7%A0%94%E5%85%AC%E5%85%B1%E6%94%BF%E7%AD%96%E9%80%A0%E6%99%82%E5%8B%A2/