Professor Zhiqiang Wang, Dean of School of Public Administration of South China University of Technology (left) and Professor Ka Ho Mok, Vice-President and Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Lingnan University (right), signed the agreement on 17 May 2018

School of Public Administration of South China University of Technology joins the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP) as a core member to co-support and co-develop new research programmes, research activities, leading to high quality outputs to raise the profile of Asian higher education studies in Asia, for Asia and of Asia.

The Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership (APHERP) is an inter-university research consortium for higher education with the aims to provide a platform for international research on higher education, policy and governance with particular focus on the Asia Pacific region and Asia-Europe comparison. The APHER is led by Professor Ka Ho Mok, Vice-President and Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Lingnan University, and Professor Deane Neubauer, Emeritus Professor of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.