Calendar 2002–03

112 Part 3• ResearchUnits andUniversity Extensions emerging educational issuesand currenteducational demandsin the local context; help partn er sch ools to an aly se their own situation s and needs; or ganize consultancy teams to work with partner schools; design school-based or school- wid e strategies for schoo l impr ovemen t and quality teaching and learning; implement school improvement strategies with partner schools and evaluate the results; generate experien ces and mod els in ‘technology transfer’ for future university-school partnership schemes; and strengthen the relationship between theUniversity and schools in improving theoverall quality of education in Hong Kong. On going pr ogr ammes of th e centre includ e: Un iversity an d Scho ol Partnership for Quality Education Project; Assessing Characteristics and Needs of Gifted Students: Perspectives fromStudents, Their Peers, Parents and Teachers; Early Childhood Environmental Education and Teachers Training; Motivation and Model of Learning among Primary School Pupils in the Subjects of Chinese Lan guage, En glish Lang uage and Mathematics; Cr eativ e Adv entu re-based Leadership Training Programme; School Reform and Curriculum Research and Development; Quality Schools Project; Life-wide Learning Project; Professional Enhan cement Programme on Environmental Education for Primary School Teachers; In- service Teacher Development Co urses on Project Learning in Per sonal, Social and Humanities Education; Curr iculum Development and Catering for Student Diversity; and Summer Programme for the Gifted. Cheng Suen Man Shook Centre for Hepatitis Tel.:2648 4326 Fax.:2648 4326 The centre was founded by a generous donation from Mr. George Cheng for the study of viral hepatitis. It consists of a molecular biology laboratory and a clinical trial centre lo cated at the Sir Yue-kong Pao Centre for Cancer and the Li Ka Shing Clinic respectively. Activities of the centre include • conducting basic laboratory research on the pathogenesis of viral hepatitis; • conducting clinical trials on the treatment of viral hepatitis; • training of postgraduate students; and • educating patients and the general public about the disease. Chinese Teaching Information Technology Centre Tel.:2609 7074 Fax.:2603 6048 E-mail :chilan@cuhk.edu.hk To develop information technology in Chinese teaching and to meet the needs of a new era, a Chinese Teaching Information Technology Centre (CTITC) was established by the Department of ChineseLanguageand Literaturein collaboration with the Department of Computer Science andEngineering in 1999. CTITC has since been devoting much attention to developing electronic teaching materials on Chinese teaching and has set up the ‘Bowen Website’ ( 博文網站 ) (http:// bowen.chi.cuhk.edu.hk) , which is popular among teachers and students.