Arthur Li
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The Honorable Arthur Kwok Cheung Li GBS, JP |
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| 李國章 | |
Arthur Li in 2006
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| Vice-Chancellor of Chinese University of Hong Kong | |
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In office 1996–2002 |
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| Chancellor |
Lord Patten of Barnes Tung Chee-hwa |
| Preceded by | Charles Kao |
| Succeeded by | Ambrose King |
| Secretary for Education and Manpower | |
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In office 1 July 2002 – 30 June 2007 |
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| Chief Executive | Sir Donald Tsang |
| Preceded by | Fanny Law |
| Succeeded by | Michael Suen |
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27 June 1945 Hong Kong |
| Spouse(s) | Diana Chester; 2 children |
| Relations | Koon-chun Li (great grandfather) Fook-shu Li (father) Tze-ha Wu (mother) David Li (brother) Alex Li (son) Peter Li (son) Athena Li (granddaughter) Andreas Li (grandson) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 李國章 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 李国章 | ||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lǐ Guózhāng |
Arthur Li Kwok-cheung GBS JP (Chinese: 李國章; born 27 June 1945) is a member of the Executive Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and was Secretary for Education and Manpower from 2002 to 2007. He is the grandson of the co-founder of the Bank of East Asia, Li Koon-chun, and brother of its current chairman, David Li.
An alumnus of St. Paul's Co-educational College and a classmate of Professor Lawrence J. Lau, Li received his medical training at the University of Cambridge. He was subsequently trained at Middlesex Hospital Medical School and Harvard Medical School, before returning to Hong Kong to become the founding chairman of the Department of Surgery and Dean of Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Li's tenure as Secretary for Education and Manpower was marked by an era of education reforms that included the School-Based Management Policy. Since 2000, the Education and Manpower Bureau has implemented a number of mandates, including having teachers spend more time with students outside the classroom, adding exams for subjects such as English and history, and ordering that teachers take benchmark assessments to prove their language abilities. Li ostensibly retired from public service in 2007.
In the role, he caused controversy by proposing mergers first between Chinese University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and later between Chinese University and the Hong Kong Institute of Education.
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