Huge Congratulations to our School Supervisor Professor Evelyn Man

Date: 23/06/2026

We are absolutely thrilled to celebrate Professor Evelyn Man Yee Fun on being awarded the prestigious Honorary University Fellowship 2025 by The University of Hong Kong. This incredible honour recognizes Prof. Man’s lifelong dedication to education, her profound impact on teacher training, and her unwavering commitment to the HKU alumni community.

 

Professor Evelyn MAN Yee Fun
2025 Honorary University Fellow

Professor Evelyn Man Yee Fun is a teacher educator specialising in English language teacher training. She taught at the Faculty of Education of the Chinese University of Hong Kong until retirement and remains actively involved in education at all levels.

 

Professor Man holds a BA from the University of Hong Kong, a PGCE, Adv Dip Ed and MA from the University of London, and a PhD from the University of Toronto. The sense of belonging that is at the heart of a university’s alumni community has been a constant thread throughout her life’s work.

 

Following in the footsteps of her father, the late Dr Dexter Man Hung Cho (an Honorary Degree recipient and Honorary University Fellow of HKU), and her sister, Ms Irene Man Yee Ching (also an Honorary University Fellow of HKU), Professor Man continues her alma mater’s legacy of contribution and commitment, especially in alumni relations.

 

Professor Man has been an HKU Mentor since the scheme’s earliest stages, working with alumni of different generations and disciplines. She has served as President of the Hong Kong University Alumni Association (HKUAA), including as President of its Ontario Chapter in Toronto during the 1990’s. Upon returning to Hong Kong, she also became President of the Old Halls Alumni Association. Recently, she oversaw the renovation of the HKUAA premises in Central, transforming it into an important networking hub for bonding, feasting, personal and professional growth among HKU alumni.

 

Professor Man has taught at HKU’s Faculty of Education on many of the Education Bureau’s Language across the Curriculum Courses, and supervised participants onsite in schools. She has also lent her counsel to the HKU Court, HKU Foundation, HKU Convocation Standing Committee and HKU Heritage Fund Committee.

 

As an educator, she played a key role in the Hong Kong University Graduates Association Education Foundation, serving on its Executive Committee and on the Incorporated Management Committee of HKUGA College. As former Chairlady of the Hong Kong Chinese Women’s Club and Board member of the Man Kwan Education Organisation, she actively promotes education for women and the disadvantaged. She is the School Supervisor of the Chinese Women’s Club College that produced a ‘Top Scorer’ in 2024 and an ‘Ultimate Top Scorer’, the highest achiever in the Diploma of Secondary Education in the whole of Hong Kong in 2025. She is a member of the Incorporated Management Committee of the three schools under the Man Kwan Education Organisation School Sponsoring Body, as well as being an education consultant to many schools in Hong Kong. She has also served on committees of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, including inter alia the Quality Education Fund, the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research, the Programme for International Student Assessment, and committees of the Education University and Hang Seng University of Hong Kong.