by LYIS
Dr Oliver Kramer, appointed head of ISF Academy Hong Kong, will be leading the workshop “Maintaining International Curriculums While Staying Compliant with Educational Legislation”.
The aim of the workshop is to familiarize attendants with the latest political developments in the field of international and bi-lingual education in Mainland China in particular.
The workshop will be looking at implementation of curriculums, ensuring the buy-in of all key constituents (board, parents, pupils, staff), analysing the risks and opportunities of curriculum changes and adaptions, trying to find practical solutions to political (and non-political) problems, and investigate current and future trends.
Dr Kramer studied modern Chinese and Japanese at the University of Heidelberg before doing graduate research at the Political University, Taibei and eventually finishing his PhD at the University of Edinburgh with a thesis on contemporary Chinese fiction. He started of his teaching career at the universities of Edinburgh and London (SOAS) before being appointed by Eton College to build and lead their Oriental Department.
He was founding headmaster of two schools in Shanghai and Hangzhou before returning to Shanghai as Executive Principal of a large K12 school. He will be joining ISF Academy as Head of School in July this year.
After a decade of captaining Eton College’s staff soccer team, Oliver is now content to go hiking along the Hong Kong scenery, with his youngest child an enthusiastic co-hiker. He also loves cooking, the skills required and necessitated after an abrupt move from Taibei to Edinburgh. His football loving son helps him in the kitchen.
To attend #LYIS25, click here