Education news: Send a postcard, spend a year
Works by the late Hong Kong writer Leung Ping-kwan will be discussed at Literature in Circulation, the 10th East Asian Conference on Modern Literature in Chinese to be held on October 25 and October 26 at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Recent findings on Chinese and Hong Kong literature from Asian perspectives will also be featured, and scholars from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia will present papers. The annual conference is hosted and organised by the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies and the Research Centre for Chinese Literature and Literary Culture at HKIEd, and is co-organised by Lingnan University's Centre for Humanities Research.
Fifteen scholars from 10 British universities will spend a year studying at a Hong Kong university next year after winning Scholarships for Excellence administered by the British Council Hong Kong. Each was awarded £3,000 (HK$37,200). The popular scholarship has benefited more than 100 students since 2006. It is funded by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and supported by A Better Tomorrow, Hong Kong. It provides British students who have demonstrated leadership skills, academic excellence and the potential to offer a substantial contribution towards the well-being of the international community, the opportunity to spend either a semester or a full year at a Hong Kong university as part of their degrees. The scholars come from institutions including Imperial College London, Lancaster University, University of Sheffield, University of Warwick, University of Bristol, University of Southampton, University of Leeds, and University of London, Royal Holloway.