With its great impact and outcome in the past three years (2016-2019), the Centre for Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education at The Education University of Hong Kong will continue to run the project titled, “Supporting Unit for Special Education Needs Phase 2” (SuSEN 2.0), with the generous support of the Swire Group Charitable Trust from 2020 to 2021.

To celebrate the achievements of its eponymous project, whose goal is to promote the learning of Chinese classics in primary students, The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) today (20 July) published an audio book entitled Three Character Classic and Modern Society, with copies distributed to all primary schools, universities and public libraries for free. Relevant materials were also made available online to the public.

On 6 July 2020, The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), together with Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University and Minin Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University, held an online conference, titled “Adjustments and Support by Tertiary Institutions amid the Coronavirus”.

The online “Chinese Characters Teaching and Learning of CSL Workshop” took place on 19 June. More than 800 people from around the world registered for the workshop, during which scholars and education practitioners from Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Vietnam were invited to discuss new directions in teaching Chinese characters and learning Chinese as a Second Language (CSL).