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HKUST Appoints Director of Admissions, Reoistration and Records
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology today announces the appointment of Mr Frederic0 E. CASTRO, a native of Hong Kong, as Director of the Admissions, Registration and Records Office.
Mr Castro earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Languages at the University of Hong Kong, and began his administrative career there soon after graduation. After working three years at the university, he went to the United Kingdom to pursue an MA in theoretical linguistics at the University of Reading. In late 1973 he emigrated to Australia, starting out as Assistant Academic Registrar in a South Australian tertiary institution. In 1976 he joined Deakin University, a new university which has earned international renown for its mixed-mode (on- and off-campus) undergraduate and postgraduate professional programmes.
Mr Castro remained with Deakin for 14 years. During that time he completed a postgraduate Diploma in Computing, and helped set up a sophisticated Unix-based student management information system. Most recently before joining HKUST, Mr Castro completed a consultancy at the HK Polytechnic where he advised on student systems. Mr Castro, having witnessed the birth pangs of Deakin, is looking forward to ‘parallel experiences’ at HKUST and to the challenges ahead as part of a team to make the new Hong Kong University of Science and Technology the best in the city of his birth.
Mr Castro is married with two children. His wife, an education technologist and telecommunication researcher, is Head of Academic Programmes for Continuing
Education at Hong Kong Baptist College.
