We’re delighted to work with UNESCO-UNEVOC Centre (Hong Kong) on the research into the PASCAL team’s benchmarking tool for regional and community engagement. While our government has been advocating Vocational & Professional Education & Training (VPET), the research is indeed relevant to the VPET values to the local & regional communities.

Hong Kong College of Technology (HKCT), as a VPET-oriented institution providing Higher Education and Continuing Education for decades, it’s definitely a positive experience for us to reconfirm our core values and missions via an internal evaluation process of employing the benchmarking tool. VPET Institutions like HKCT have diverse ways of interactions among staff & students, public agencies, business community, not-for-profit organisations and community groups to facilitate knowledge exchange, sharing of skills and experience. The tool helps us appreciate the benefits of our engagement with the wide communities, for instance, improving students’ learning & well-being of the communities, benefitting the social, economic and cultural development of the region.

More importantly, this research experience has enabled us to make broader international connections. Our warmest welcome to the PASCAL team’s visit from the UK and Italy! The International Symposium held in Hong Kong and the connections after that are of great importance. We are thrilled to continue with the academic and professional exchange International platform!