in November 2019, the Education University of Hong Kong first cooperated with the Parents Association of Autistic Children in Mainstream Education, providing long-distance running training for 6 autistic people. They completed 10 km runnung in RunOurCity held on 12 January, 2020. With the company of EdUHK students', all of them completed within 56 minutes and broke their personal record.

SCMP ran a feature interview with Hong Kong women's touch team member Miss Rebecca Wong Chi-ling, a student of Bachelor of Education (Honours) (Physical Education). In the interview, Rebecca shares her aspiration to become a PE teacher and how she struggles to maintain a balance between academic studies amid busy training schedule as an athlete.

2019 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals commenced in Zhengzhou, China on 12th December 2019. Doo Hoi Kem, a student from Bachelor of Health Education (Honors) programme, has reached the Quarter Final and won a bronze medal in mixed double with her partner Wong Chun Ting. After the achievement of Shek Wai Hung, the member of Hong Kong Gymnastics Team, Doo is the second BHE’s student who earned another ticket in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Hong Kong Windsurfing Team is striving for better achievement, let’s cheer and support for them! Details of the related press release could be found at Sportsroad.

Let's cheer and support for them to obtain more achievement!

The EdUHK men soccer team participated in the 6th Asian University Football Tournament 2019 from 16 to 27 September in Tainan. The soccer team beat Indonesia on 24 September 2019.

2019 Chungju World Martial Arts Masterships had taken place in Chungju City, South Korea on 30 August. Hong Kong Wushu Team ranked first in the medal tally, two of the medal winners are the students from Department of Health and Physical Education (HPE).

Ms Sarah Lee Wai-sze, BBS, MH, Honorary Fellow of EdUHK, Graduate of Bachelor of Health Education (Honours), again scoops 3 more gold medals in Japan Track Cup on 23 – 25 August 2019, including two champions for Sprint and one gold for Keirin events.

Professor Sheung-Tak Cheng is Chair Professor of Psychology and Gerontology at HPE. Being the brain health expert with focus on dementia care, Professor Cheng was invited to give a talk and participate in the prestigious World Dementia Council Summit on 5 Dec 2018. The World Dementia Council was established during the G8 (now G7) Summit in 2013. He was invited in his capacity as Emeritus Member of the Global Council on Brain Health which issued the first global guideline on participation in cognitively stimulating activities and brain health (published in five languages, namely English, Chinese, Spanish, French, and Latin), and to contribute to an “Asia-global dialogue” about key issues. He was the only Asian speaker invited, other than representatives from Japan which is a G7 country.