名譽大學院士

程介明教授為香港大學榮休教授，兼教育學院教育政策研究中心榮譽主任，是國際知名教育政策學者和備受敬重的大學領袖。

程教授是港大的忠誠校友，於1966年取得理學士學位，主修物理及數學，並在翌年獲頒數學榮譽理學士，至1983年修畢教育碩士（管理與規劃）。他於1987年在英國倫敦大學教育研究院（今屬倫敦大學學院）取得博士學位。

程教授是培元英文書院的創校校長，於1970年代開始積極參與本地教育政策事務。1999年香港開展全面教育改革上，作為教育統籌委員會的成員，他擔當關鍵角色。

程教授在中學任教十五年，當中九年肩負校長一職。1984年，他正式加入港大教育學院，服務至今，專研教育政策、規劃與改革。他在港大開創先河，開辦首個質性研究課程，其後在哈佛大學教育研究院任客座教授期間（1996-2006），創立教育與文化關係課程，是其教育生涯中的一大亮點。

1995年，程教授獲港大委任為講座教授，並先後身兼多項大學要職，包括教育學院院長、副校長、校長資深顧問、學生宿舍明原堂與利希慎堂舍監，以及柏立基學院院長。1999年，他推動大學創立發展及校友事務部，聯結全校院系部門參與拓展和捐贈活動，其建樹超越港大惠及香港社會。

他於1980年代開始研究中國教育，並成為許多主要大學的客座教授，亦是中國教育三十人論壇的成員。

程教授曾為不少國際機構擔任研究顧問，包括世界銀行和聯合國教科文組織，到過不少國家的貧困農村，參與過許多國家的政策討論、評估與培訓。程教授特別關注社會變化及其對教育的挑戰。

Citation delivered by Professor Ian HOLLIDAY, Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning)

Professor Cheng Kai Ming, Emeritus Professor and Honorary Director of the Education Policy Unit in the HKU Faculty of Education, is globally renowned as an expert on education policy and development, a beloved teacher, a respected university leader, and a distinguished and loyal alumnus of the University of Hong Kong.

“Ching Sir”, the name he is affectionately known by at HKU, was born in 1944 in the unoccupied city of Kunming, hence the “Ming” in his name. He moved with his family from Shanghai to Hong Kong in March 1949 and recalls that he attended seven different schools before university!

Professor Cheng holds, inter alia, a BSc in Physics and Mathematics (1966), a Special BSc in Mathematics (1967), and a Master of Education in Management and Planning (1983) all from the University of Hong Kong, and a PhD (1987) from the Institute of Education at the University of London, now University College London.

Professor Cheng was the founding Principal of Elementi College, a private secondary school in the working-class area of Shau KeI Wan, and also taught at the prestigious St Paul’s College across the road from HKU. 

He became active in local education policy in the 1970s and  went on to be an influential member of the Education Commission, which launched comprehensive education reform in 1999, triggering the 3-3-4 structural changes to the education system.

After 15 years of school teaching, including nine years as a school principal, he joined HKU’s Faculty of Education in 1984. He’s been with the Faculty ever since. 

Professor Cheng’s research focuses on education planning, policy-making and reform. His course on Qualitative Research was the first of its kind at HKU, and became his signature course here. He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1996 to 2006, where he was renowned for his course on Culture and Education. He was the first to study China’s education system in the early 1980s, and has been visiting professor at many pre-eminent universities in the Mainland. He is a member of the China Education 30 Forum.

Professor Cheng was appointed Chair Professor at HKU in 1995, and served in many leadership positions, including Dean of Education, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Senior Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor, Warden of Old Halls and Lee Hysan Hall, and Master of Robert Black College. Since the 1980s, he has regularly shared his expertise and insights in a weekly column in the Hong Kong Economic Journal – which he still writes, so please don’t miss his next article!

Professor Cheng was instrumental in creating HKU’s Development and Alumni Affairs Office in 1999 – actively championing the endeavours of the University across all disciplines, and vigorously growing a culture of philanthropy at his alma mater and throughout Hong Kong.

Globally, he has served as consulting researcher for many major international organisations, including the World Bank and UNESCO, which brought him to many villages around the world. He has been involved in policy discussion, evaluation and training in numerous countries, and is known for his focus on social change and its impact on education. He is an Honorary Fellow of UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Educational Research Association.

Mr Pro-Chancellor, it is my great pleasure to present my colleague and friend, “Ching Sir”, Professor Cheng Kai Ming, for the Honorary University Fellowship, in recognition of his substantial contribution to academia and to Hong Kong.