CUHK :: Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning

Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning

Composition

Chairman:

Professor Kenneth Young, Pro-Vice-Chancellor

Members:

Professor Jack C.Y. Cheng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor

Professor Ching Pak Chung, Pro-Vice-Chancellor

Professor Liu Pak Wai, Pro-Vice-Chancellor

Professor Lai Pan Chiu, Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Arts

Professor C.F. Chan, Representative, Faculty of Business Administration

Professor Lee Chi Kin, Dean, Faculty of Education

Professor Chan Lai Wan, Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Engineering

Professor H.K. Ng, Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Medicine

Professor Poon Wai Yin, Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Science

Professor Stephen Chiu, Associate Dean (Education), Faculty of Social Science

Professor Ling Bing, Representative, School of Law

Professor Wong Wing Shing, Dean of Graduate School

Professor Billy K.L. So, Registrar

Mr. Eric Ng, Director of Registry Services

Professor Carmel McNaught, Director, Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research

Secretary:

Ms. Kitty Yu, Head of Academic and Quality Section

Observers:

Professor David Kember, Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research

Professor Cheung Chan Fai, Director, Office of University General Education

Dr. Victor Lee, Director, School of Continuing and Professional Studies

Two student representatives

Terms of Reference

	To strengthen and coordinate the University's existing policy on teaching and learning, so as to ensure that the University's programmes are consistent with Hong Kong's development into a knowledge-based society.
	To streamline and invigorate existing committees on teaching and learning at Department / Faculty levels, so as to produce a clearer structure for determining and implementing the University's policy on teaching and learning.
	To develop a system for identification, dissemination and utilization of the best practices in programme and course design, teaching approaches, assessment policies and evaluation strategies.
	To develop teaching and learning performance indicators, focusing on student-learning outcomes that are appropriate for influencing allocation of resources.
	To identify appropriate incentives for teaching and learning enhancement, propose related policies to the University's Administrative and Planning Committee and advise the Resource Allocation Committee on resource allocation in parallel with these initiatives.
	To enhance the University's Education Quality Work (EQW) as a whole by promoting the use of student feedback as a source of information not only on teaching performance, but also on student learning outcomes.
	To formulate appropriate monitoring procedures that focus on students' learning outcomes.
	To determine ways to optimize the expertise in the Centre for Learning Enhancement And Research (CLEAR) in order to achieve these enumerated goals.