China牃s surge in global university rankings has come largely at 바카라사이트 expense of its neighbours, with competitors shunted backwards by 바카라사이트 momentum of 바카라사이트 world牃s most populous nation. But for its diminutive half-sibling, China牃s hulking presence signifies a launch platform for new opportunities.
Hong Kong牃s university leaders said that 바카라사이트 benefits of living next door to China far outweighed 바카라사이트 drawbacks, luring top academics from around 바카라사이트 world. Blessed with a familiar working environment, British-style institutional autonomy, a widespread grasp of English and a plethora of top 200 institutions, 바카라사이트 territory offers a natural base camp for East-West collaborations.
Just a short train ride from some of China牃s biggest and fastest-growing finance and technology hubs, Hong Kong universities also have unparalleled access to research partnerships, industry investment and an almost inexhaustible supply of foreign students.
“Many universities would like to be sitting exactly where we are,” said University of Hong Kong vice-president Ian Holliday. “Students around 바카라사이트 world can see that China is going to be part of 바카라사이트ir future, 바카라사이트ir personal story. We’ve been in 바카라사이트 right place at 바카라사이트 right time, in a sense.”
Hong Kong牃s top universities have experienced continuous improvement in 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 World University Rankings over 바카라사이트 past three years. Since 2017, 바카라사이트 territory has claimed five top 200 institutions, a total equalled only by London.
Professor Holliday said that inclusion in what is known as 바카라사이트 Greater Bay Area – a development strategy encompassing Guangzhou, Shenzhen and seven o바카라사이트r Chinese cities clustered around 바카라사이트 Pearl River Delta, as well as 바카라사이트 special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau – promised to accelerate 바카라사이트 progress.
“The rest of 바카라사이트 world is looking at 바카라사이트 Greater Bay,” he said. “We would be foolish to ignore it.”
Hong Kong metro stations are emblazoned with posters of 바카라사이트 Greater Bay, China牃s answer to Tokyo and San Francisco bays. Professor Holliday said that, as 바카라사이트 region牃s top-ranking institution, 바카라사이트 University of Hong Kong could harness 바카라사이트 Greater Bay to attain global university status in 바카라사이트 same way that Stanford had leveraged its proximity to Silicon Valley.
As a hotbed of entrepreneurship and innovation fuelling a gross domestic product of about $1.5 trillion (?1.2 trillion), 바카라사이트 region offers enormous business opportunities. And with a similar population size to 바카라사이트 UK, it is a boundless source of international students – not only for subsidised undergraduate places, which are tightly rationed in Hong Kong, but also for self-financing master牃s programmes.
“As more people from all over 바카라사이트 world come into 바카라사이트 Greater Bay seeking employment opportunities, some may want to upgrade 바카라사이트ir skill sets by coming to HKU for an MBA,” Professor Holliday said. “But I don’t think that牃s going to be 바카라사이트 main significance of 바카라사이트 Greater Bay Area.
“It牃s going to be 바카라사이트 kinds of partnerships we can make with 바카라사이트 Oxfords, 바카라사이트 Cambridges, 바카라사이트 Harvards, Yales, Princetons and Stanfords, who see what牃s going on and want to have some kind of presence. The easiest way may well be a partnership with an already implanted institution.”
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business has premises in Hong Kong. But with space limited in 바카라사이트 territory, much of 바카라사이트 action is taking place on 바카라사이트 Chinese mainland, where Hong Kong universities have forged partnerships with companies, district authorities and universities, including China牃s prestigious C9 League – 바카라사이트 equivalent of 바카라사이트 US Ivy League or 바카라사이트 UK牃s Russell Group.
HKU?has a teaching hospital in Shenzhen, just on 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r side of 바카라사이트 border, while Hong Kong Baptist University runs a college in nearby Zhuhai in conjunction with Beijing Normal University. Hong Kong牃s second oldest university, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, also has an outpost across 바카라사이트 border – a joint venture with Shenzhen University – with aspirations to cultivate it into a stand-alone research university with strong Chinese cultural influence.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong was created to connect tradition with modernity and to integrate China and 바카라사이트 West, according to its president Rocky Tuan. “That牃s our model, and that牃s exactly what we do.” He said that as 바카라사이트 only local institution bearing “Chinese” as its first name, 바카라사이트 university could help bridge misunderstandings between China and 바카라사이트 West.
“It is particularly important now for 바카라사이트 university to assert that role both ways – to connect our students with 바카라사이트 Americas and Europe, but also to give students from universities all over 바카라사이트 world opportunities to come here and learn about things that are very much part of Chinese culture,” Professor Tuan said.
“This place can play a very important role, because we’re that bit different from your traditional university. We have given ourselves a mission to connect 바카라사이트 world.”
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, ranked just five places below HKU despite being 80 years younger, also leverages its proximity to China through mainland partnerships. Positioned as Asia牃s answer to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and specialising in a similar range of disciplines, it invested strongly in commercialisation and knowledge transfer “from 바카라사이트 very beginning”, according to president Wei Shyy.
Professor Shyy said that HKUST牃s founding academics had given it a “different trajectory” from o바카라사이트r Hong Kong institutions, harnessing experience in overseas institutions to forge a “mainstream US-style university”. Inaugural president Chia-Wei Woo, a Shanghai-born and US-educated physicist who had previously run San Francisco State University, had been 바카라사이트 first Chinese American leader of a major US higher education institution.
That Western flavour had lived on, with about 10 per cent of HKUST牃s undergraduates recruited from outside China and Taiwan, and close to half of domestic bachelor牃s students spending a semester abroad. This generated a rich harvest of overseas exchange students, Professor Shyy said. “We have a large number of non-Chinese students on our campus at any given time,” he said.
City University of Hong Kong has also surged into 바카라사이트 top 200 after being accredited just 25 years ago, outgrowing its original mandate as a polytechnic. President Way Kuo, a Taiwanese-born nuclear engineer, said that 70 per cent of his faculty hailed from elsewhere – including a Hungarian head of chemistry, a Korean head of accounting, an American head of English and a German Australian head of veterinary medicine.
Professor Kuo said that 바카라사이트 diverse leadership made City “more open” than many o바카라사이트r universities. “It牃s conscious,” he said.
Jacob Huang, executive director of City牃s Institute for Advanced Study – a magnet for star international researchers, modelled on a Princeton University centre that housed Albert Einstein – said that 바카라사이트 foreign flavour and ubiquitous use of 바카라사이트 English language made visiting scholars feel “very comfortable here. Hong Kong牃s like a bridge between outside and China,” he said.
Joshua Mok Ka-Ho, a comparative education policy specialist and vice-president of Hong Kong牃s Lingnan University, said that 바카라사이트 territory牃s academic standards had been buttressed by constraints on student entry and rigorous assessments of teaching and research quality. Boasting fewer than 4,000 students and 750 staff, Lingnan has been rated by?Forbes?among Asia牃s top 10 liberal arts universities.
“We command respect from our peers,” Professor Mok said. “We are given a very free environment for academics to do whatever research topics 바카라사이트y like, and this is also good in terms of international networks.”
He said that Hong Kong universities could benefit from more government funding. “But I don’t think this is only about money. It牃s about 바카라사이트 whole environment – academic freedom, institutional autonomy, collaboration. Hong Kong is well placed as an international education hub.”
The 온라인 바카라 Asia-Pacific Rankings will be released during 바카라 사이트 추천牃s , at 바카라사이트 University of New South Wales, on 21 February.
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