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Context Of the six HKU undergraduate aims, we consider ‘tackling novel situations and ill-defined problems’ and ‘leadership and advocacy for the improvement of human condition’ particularly [...]

Empowering students to be independent and critical thinkers is considered one of the most important educational goals of higher education (HERI, 2009; Pithers & Soden, 2000). Facing the [...]

Randomised clinical trials (RCTs) generate important information about the effectiveness and safety of drugs, whether they are drugs yet to be on the market or already extensively used in the [...]

(Title image credit: Federico Fellini, 8 1/2, 1963.) The art of motion picture is a fascinating medium. Derived from the Greek word κίνημα, cinema describes movement, as films fundamentally move [...]

What was the inspiration for founding a new university? Why would anyone go to the immense trouble of starting a new university? Quest University Canada was the brainchild of David Strangway OC [...]

Most people probably agree that the world is facing a number of unprecedented crises. Although the outlook may not be as gloomy as some might believe, one thing is clear, something needs to [...]

In this summer, the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) organized a forum, Maximising the Impact of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) – Effective Training and Development [...]

Readers from the University of Hong Kong might be aware that ‘interdisciplinarity’ is one of the 3+1 I’s stated as the University’s strategic goals, along with innovation, internationalisation [...]

Interdisciplinarity “promises to deliver us from the stagnation of limited disciplinary understandings, and usher in a new age of tolerance and productivity” (Janz, 1994). In research, one can [...]

Literature has established the strong link between inadequate training of health professionals for working together as an interprofessional team and a range of adverse outcomes, such as patient [...]