{"id":109,"date":"2021-05-13T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/lipace\/?page_id=109"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:19:14","slug":"dean-message","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/lipace\/about-us\/dean-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean's Message"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\r\nIt is my pleasure to welcome you to our Website. We appreciate your visit and \r\nhope that you will get to know more about us and what LiPACE can offer to \r\nlearners like yourself. <\/p>\r\n

\r\nAs a trusted provider of full-time post-secondary (further) education and part-time programmes, LiPACE is committed to serving the needs of learners from all walks of life. Our students include senior secondary graduates, working professionals, corporate employees, non-profit and public sector clients. The School's full-time Higher Diploma and Diploma programmes cover a wide range of subject areas. Students in these programmes come from diverse backgrounds including Hong Kong, ethnic minorities & other nationalities in HK, and from different provinces and autonomous regions in mainland China. Established as a Centre in 1992 and retitled as an academic School of the Hong Kong Metropolitan University in 2020, we have stayed true to our founding mission of serving the broadest constituency of learners and shall continue to work towards becoming your preferred \u201cLifelong Learning Partner\u201d.<\/p>\r\n

\r\nOur programmes have over the years carved out a niche of their own. LiPACE's \r\nDiploma of Applied Education (DAE) programme offers a wide choice of elective \r\ncourses that are in tune with developments in the service sector (e.g. \r\nenvironmental management to be introduced in 2026\/27). The Higher Diploma \r\nofferings in LiPACE are equally diverse, ranging from high demand programmes in \r\nHealth Care to areas at the interface with new technology and specialized \r\nservices such as Digital Business Practice, Health and Molecular Testing and Pet \r\nCare. Meanwhile, our part-time programmes have continued to serve occupational \r\nareas requiring staff training and retraining, such as OSH, tree management, \r\nproperty management. They also appeal to special interest areas such as \r\ncommunity museum management and cultural relics and East \u2013 West cultural \r\nexchange. We shall follow the same pioneering spirit while developing new \r\nprofessional qualifications that ride on the trends of the creative, digital and \r\nexperiential economies as well as meeting specialized areas of human service \r\nneeds.<\/p>\r\n

\r\nLaunched in 2009, our Elder Academy and its IT learning courses both continue to \r\nplay leading roles in addressing the learning needs of senior citizens in the \r\ncommunity. Through them, we help to fulfill our University's social mission to \r\nreach out to the community.<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAs we look forward to celebrating the 35th anniversary of the School's \r\nestablishment in 2027, I hope that you will join us soon to start your learning \r\njourney and become a member of the LiPACE learning community.<\/p>\r\n

\r\nDr. Benjamin Chan
\r\nDean
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