Last month, our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Chris Husbands, and his team visited our partners at SCOPE (the School of Continuing and Professional Education at City University) in Hong Kong. Here, David Chan describes his visit to their class and graduation ceremony.

The Vice-Chancellor had a face-to-face discussion with a group of 21 students for the BA (Honours) Applied Social Science course, on the morning of 24 October 2016. Students were extremely inspired by the Vice-Chancellor’s encouragement and blessings. Students were further touched by the Vice-Chancellor’s commitment to promoting international collaborative provision between Hong Kong and the UK.

Of equal importance, Dr. David Bowles, Principal Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics and Leader of Business Development, delivered a guest lecture on ‘Love and Romance’ for the full-time degree programme (BAASS), which has been running since being launched in October 2016. The guest lecture on was well received by the whole class (over 50), and students were enlightened and enriched by the true meaning of love and romance in modern society through the talk. David’s elaboration on those empirical research findings from psychology was most thought-provoking.