Professor Kwong Lee Dow, AM

Professor Kwong Lee Dow is Deputy Vice-Chancellor in the University of Melbourne.

Professor Lee Dow is also Chair of the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority (formerly Victorian Board of Studies). In 1997, he led and completed a review of the Victorian Certificate of Education. Earlier, he was Dean of Education in the University for twenty years.

He has extensive input into Commonwealth Government education policy including Chairing the recently established Review of Teaching and Teacher Education; he is also a member of the Australian Universities Teaching Committee and was a member of the Review of Higher Education Financing and Policy (West Review) and member for six years of the Higher Education Council.

Currently, he is also a member of the Australian Multicultural Foundation, Chair, Asia Education Foundation and member of the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation. He has been an Adviser in establishing and later Council Member of the Hong Kong Institute of Education.

His reputation as a leading Australian educator has been acknowledged by appointment as Member of the Order of Australia (1984), the award of the Sir James Darling Medal of the Australian College of Education (1994) and the Outstanding Chinese Achievers Award for his contribution to Education.

Kwong was a student at Camberwell High School from 1950 to 1954, moving to Melbourne High School in 1955 to complete the sixth year of secondary education, not then available at Camberwell. He thus started at Camberwell High School within the first decade of the school’s history, broken though it was as a consequence of rearrangements in the second world war.