Bulletin Vol. 8 No. 2 Sep 1971

Teaching of Modern Mathematics in Secondary Schools" the third similar courses offered by the Department, a testimony to their previous successful completion. Out of the eleven certificate courses, five have been organized in collaboration with professional societies or institutions that can give guide lines to the nature and contents of the courses and two have been organized with co- sponsors. The close cooperation between the EMSD and various sectors of the community clearly substantiates the University's desire to identif y itself with the Hong Kong community at large. While more and more certificate courses have been organized and offered to the public, the quality of teaching and successful candidates has also been upgraded, as can be seen in the keen competitio n for enrolment for these courses. It may be too early to tell, but the trend seems t o suggest that the offering of more certificate courses may eventually lead to the awarding of degrees which is a realistic outcome of the present development. Vi ce-Chance l l or a t t ends I n t e r na t i ona l Conferences During the summer Vice-Chancellor Choh-Ming Li participated in several international conferences and meetings, returning to the campus on 13th September. From 27th June to 2nd July, Dr. Li attended the second Asian-U.S. Educators' Conference in which ten university presidents and other senior Asian and American scholars participated to discuss problems affecting campuses on both sides of the Pacific. The Conference, sponsored by the Institute of International Education, was held at the ancient city of Nara of Japan. Dr. Li was invited to make a statement on problems of cultural and intellectual interchange: cultural differences and value systems in Asia and the United States . Dr. Li attended the Conference of Executive Heads of Member Universities of The Association of Commonwealth Universities held at the University of Ghana, Africa, from 30th August to 6th September. The theme of the Conference was "Changes in University Structures and Organization". Sessions were held to discuss Constitutional Changes, Administrative Changes and External Changes. Under the topic of External Changes, Dr. Li delivered a paper on relation s with governments, governing authorities and the public. About 120 Heads of universities participated in the Conference. On 1st September, Dr. Li also attended the Meeting of the Steering Committee of Vice-Chancellors' Conference of the Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas held at Ghana to make preparation for the forthcoming Conference to be held in April 1972 in Hong Kong. T r a i n i ng Course i n Cata l ogu i ng and Classification One of the leading experts on cataloguing Chinese books, Mr. Joseph En-pao Wang, arrived in Hong Kong on 1st August, 1971 to give a training course in cataloguing and classification according to the Library of Congress system at the University Library from 4th to 30th August. Mr. Wang is the Head of the Far Eastern Languages Section, Descriptive Cataloging Division, Librar y of Congress, where he has had more than 25 years of experience in cataloguing Chinese books. Both the training programme and Mr. Wang's trip to Hong Kong were sponsored by The Asia Foundation. More than twenty members of the cataloguing staff of the University Library, the three College Libraries, the Library of the University o f Hong Kong and the Urban Council Public Libraries participated in the training Course. While Mr. Wang was in Hong Kon g he served as a consultant to the University Library on the centralized cataloguing of Chinese books project. Symposium on Science Teaching Chung Chi College and the Hong Kong Science Teachers' Association jointly sponsored a symposium from 23rd to 28th August, 1971 in the form of a series of lectures/demonstrations and discussions for the teaching of science at secondary school level. The aim was to stimulate interest among the science teachers to use more demonstration-centred lectures, practical teaching and discussion in class as a means to improve science teaching in Hong Kong. The British Council had invited Mr. Norman Allison, an experienced Physics teacher well-versed in the modern methods of science teaching, to Hong Kong to lead the symposium. The symposium was conducted at the following three different levels: 1. Physics at Matriculation Level 2. General Science for Lower Forms 3. Physics at School Certificate Level Most of the participants of the symposium were science teachers of secondary schools. The symposium was a part of the activities to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Founding of Chung Chi College. - 4 -