Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2004

Students Help Recovered Drug Addicts Start Business Members of the winning team (from left): Dubey Vaibhav, Brenda Leung, and Freda Ho with Dr. Edward Tse (right 2), managing director (Greater China) of Booz Allen Hamilton F ive teams of 21 M B A students f r om the Un i v e r s i ty competed on 8th Ma y 2004 to design the best business venture for former drug addicts w i th entrepreneurial ambitions. The Booz A l l e n H a m i l t on Social Entrepreneurship Challenge Business Plan Competition was a joint initiative between the CUHK Faculty of Business A d m i n i s t r a t i on a nd r e n o w n ed international management consultant Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH). The contest took place in the C U HK MBA Town Centre in the Bank of America Tower. The winner was a business venture offering affordable cleaning and home i mp r o v eme nt services to median income wo r k i ng families using state-of- the-art appliances. Prizes included a cash award for the winning team and internships w i th BAH's Greater China operations. Students and Graduates Honoured for Teaching Excellence S even alumni and students of the University's Faculty of Education were bestowed the first ever Ch i ef Executive's A w a r d for Teaching Excellence 2003-4 at a ceremony held on 10th September 2004. The awa rd recipients were Ho Y i n - p i ng (Master of Educa t i on, 2003), C h ow F u - h u ng (Master of Education, expected in 2005), Cheung Y i n ( P o s t g r a d u a te D i p l o ma i n E d u c a t i o n, 2001), Cham Yuen-mei (Postgraduate D i p l oma i n Educa t i on, 1985), N g Kit-chee (Master of Edu c a t i on, 2003), Pearl Chan Pui-yee (Postgraduate D i p l o ma i n Ed u c a t i o n, 1991), a nd T a ng M e i - k w an ( Po s t g r adua te D i p l o ma i n Education, 2000). The Chief Executive's Awa rd for Teaching Excellence Scheme is open to teachers of subjects under the Chinese Language Edu c a t i on Key L e a r n i ng A r ea a nd t he E n g l i sh L a n g u a ge Education Key Learning Area i n p r i ma ry and secondary schools, as we ll as teachers involved in language teaching in kindergartens and special schools. Individual winners each received a scholar- ship of HK$25,000, to be used for professional development purposes and sharing at schools in Ho ng Kong and elsewhere. I n a similar vein, Leung T i m (photo), who graduated f r om the Postgraduate D i p l oma i n Education Programme in 1996 and the Master of Education Programme i n 2004, was one of 10 r e c i p i en ts of the O u t s t a n d i ng Science a nd T e c h n o l o gy Teacher A w a r d , a n a t i o n - w i de c omp e t i t i on h e l d i n C h e n d u, S i c huan last summer. News in Brief 65