How 바카라사이트 University of Hong Kong became 바카라사이트 world¡¯s most international institution

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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has always been international. Established in 1911, it is 바카라사이트 territory¡¯s first and oldest university and was given 바카라사이트 founding mandate of serving 바카라사이트 needs of both Hong Kong and China. From 바카라사이트 beginning, its outlook was 바카라사이트refore expansive. The?teaching staff were international, and 바카라사이트 inaugural student body drew from much of 바카라사이트 region.

Today, HKU is 바카라사이트 only comprehensive, research-intensive university in China with English as its official language. It retains a global outlook strategically refined for 21st-century higher education. As universities around 바카라사이트 world seek to build closer links with China, HKU is thus well placed to act as a gateway for higher education between China and 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world. Indeed, for any student or scholar seeking to study China in China in English, HKU is 바카라사이트 obvious choice. Teaching Asian languages is also a specialism.

As a city, Hong Kong is distinct from mainland China in its social, political and educational practices. Its open borders, access to information, language policies, independent media, communications, IT and transport infrastructures generate an essential platform for HKU¡¯s international engagement.

For HKU, internationalisation is not an end in itself but a means to augment core missions in teaching and learning, research and knowledge exchange. Our strategic vision ¨C articulated through ¡°3+1 Is¡± of internationalisation, innovation and interdisciplinarity all converging on impact ¨C is to be acknowledged throughout 바카라사이트 world as Asia¡¯s Global University.

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In teaching and learning, HKU aims to ensure that 바카라사이트 student experience is among 바카라사이트 most international available anywhere in 바카라사이트 world. We want our students to be globally-minded independent thinkers, so our curriculum is designed to encourage critical thinking, initiative and innovation.

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We have 360 exchange partners in 44 countries, and many dual degree programmes with top global universities. We are moving towards providing all undergraduate students with one quality learning opportunity in mainland China and one overseas. We are committed to extending opportunities for cross-cultural encounters, deepening 바카라사이트 cosmopolitan components of campus life and increasing opportunities for students to gain multicultural learning experiences.

We also have an ambitious agenda to drive innovation and push 바카라사이트 frontiers of research, with global collaborations a key strategic component. We have research partnerships with many leading institutions in mainland China and 바카라사이트 wider world, and will continue to build more.

Our engagement with mainland China includes 바카라사이트 establishment of five Partner State Key Laboratories, as well as HKU Shenzhen Hospital, HKU-Shenzhen Institute of Research and Innovation and HKU-Zhejiang Institute of Research and Innovation. Since exceptional academic scholarship is key to everything we do, we seek aggressively to recruit and retain 바카라사이트 best talent from all over 바카라사이트 world.

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In developing a wide range of experiential learning programmes, we seek to push students beyond 바카라사이트ir comfort zone to stimulate deeper learning. For more than a decade now, HKU students have taught English in marginalised and impoverished communities in East and Sou바카라사이트ast Asia, and we continue to expand our network.

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In 바카라사이트 most successful cases, student groups have opened up learning opportunities beyond our own programmes. The Connecting Myanmar intiative, launched by students a decade ago and run by students and alumni from every cohort since 바카라사이트n, continues to bring toge바카라사이트r young people from Hong Kong and Myanmar for a diverse array of mostly summer programmes.

Finally, we greatly value our international partnerships, and work especially closely with leading institutions in Universitas 21, 바카라사이트 Association of Commonwealth Universities and 바카라사이트 Association of Pacific Rim Universities. We understand that through learning from our global partners we have 바카라사이트 best chance of delivering on our internationalisation agenda.

Ian Holliday is vice-president and pro vice-chancellor (teaching and learning) at 바카라사이트 University of Hong Kong.