On 20 September, the 5th Anniversary Award Ceremony of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Education Development Association and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Education Innovation and Future Development Forum were held in Qianhai, Shenzhen.
At the event, Ms. Claudia Liu, Chief Principal of Shenzhen Lighthouse International Education Group and Executive Principal of MIS Qianhai Campus, gathered with educational experts, scholars and entrepreneurial representatives of the education sector in the Greater Bay Area to discuss how to promote the development of education in the Greater Bay Area and even globally through education innovation and internationalisation cooperation.
Awards were also presented to the representatives of the Greater Bay Area Education Innovation Pioneer Award and the Education Excellence Contribution Award winners. Among them, Merchiston International School in Shenzhen, as an outstanding representative in the field of education, was crowned with the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay AreaEducation Innovation Pioneer Award.
At the event, the Under Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau of the HKSAR Government, Mr. Clement Woo Kin-man, gave a speech and celebrated the event. He mentioned in his speech, ‘Education is the foundation of a country's long-term development. The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Education Development Association has played an active role in promoting the process of education innovation, integration and internationalisation in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, laying a solid foundation for the future education development in the Greater Bay Area.’
Mr. Ng Hak-kim, Honorary President of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Education Development Association, said in his speech, ‘The prosperity of a country cannot be achieved without the strong support of education, especially as the Greater Bay Area is an important engine for the development of the country, in which education plays an indispensable role. Education in the Bay Area is a century-long endeavour! In the future, we will not only continue to promote the integration and innovation of education resources in the three regions, but also bring China's education achievements to the world through an international perspective.’
In the following roundtable forum, Principal Ms. Claudia Liu was invited to the stage as the guest speaker, to discuss with educational experts under the theme of ‘Education Innovation and Internationalisation’, about how technology empowers education, how to share education resources through regional collaboration, and how to turn the Greater Bay Area into an important channel for China's education to connect with the world through the mindset of globalized education.
Upholding the MIS school philosophy of ‘Academic Excellence & Warm Education’, this autumn, MIS Shenzhen is deeply integrating with Hong Kong's educational resources, strengthened exchanges and cooperation with schools in Hong Kong, and upgraded the former MIS School Shekou Campus to Shenzhen MIS School Qianhai Campus for Hong Kong and Macao Children. The campus blends quality UK curriculum and Hong Kong primary school core curriculum, adheres to teaching in English, and keeps the multi-language classes options such as French, Spanish, and adds non-heritage Chinese culture training programmes, as an effort to build the campus into a ‘magic’ school achieving the community's high expectations, with a solid foundation of the Chinese language and culture, and the international literacy and the international level of academic excellence.
