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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 [...]

“Innovation” in teaching and learning is sometimes, wrongly, equated with the growing trend to use technology to enrich and enhance teaching and learning. The notion of “innovation”, as we shall [...]

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 [...]

The Common Core at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) serves as a cornerstone of interdisciplinary learning for all of our undergraduates, as well as providing a curricular space for academic [...]

… as for other professions, engineers are expected to be good communicators, be able to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams, to conduct themselves ethically and professionally, and [...]

Building upon the success of the International Peer Review (IPR) project originally established in Dentistry, a dedicated team in Education has undertaken a pilot project to build an [...]

In line with the University’s focus on internationalisation, the Faculty of Education has transformed its curriculum at Undergraduate (our double degrees) and Postgraduate (Postgraduate Diploma [...]

The Master of Education (MEd) programme in Teaching and Learning Chinese Language is one of the two HKU programmes offered jointly with institutions outside Hong Kong that lead to a HKU degree. [...]

Internationalisation has been one of the four I’s that underpin HKU’s commitment to Asia’s Global University, along with interdisciplinarity, innovation, and impact. In dentistry, developing [...]