City U students' business plans to market fish technology win top international awards
The three students - from the departments of marketing, manufacturing engineering and engineering management, and accountancy - formulated their business plan by drawing on their interdisciplinary knowledge, experience and learning to design a conceptual framework for manufacturers of food and healthcare products.
The CityU team beat more than 250 undergraduate teams to win the Hong Kong competition of the HSBC Young Entrepreneur Awards in April 2010, and a few months later secured the Best of the Best Award at the HSBC Young Entrepreneur Regional Awards in Malaysia, beating more than 1,000 teams from Bangladesh, Brunei, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. In addition, two of the team members came in third with a similar proposal in the 5th Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition organised by Singapore Management University last July, competing with over 800 tertiary students from 40 countries.
City U students' business plans to market fish technology win top international awards
Hong Kong: Three students from different faculties at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have created an award winning business plan aimed at marketing transgenic fish technology developed by scientists at CityU. The technology detects estrogen disruptors in food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and plastics in an efficient, cost-effective way.
Estrogen disruptors are substances that interfere with the hormonal system in the body, a growing concern worldwide. The CityU researchers had found that their new testing mechanism was around 60% more efficient compared to existing chemical tests.
HKBU launches Hong Kong's first internationally recognized professional development series for faculty
Upon completion of the series, teaching staff will be able to adopt practical pedagogies that will help them provide students with HKBU graduate attributes. They will also be able to make use of electronic platforms and technologies in teaching and the design of assessment strategies.
The FPDS will lead to an internationally recognized pathway for further study in education. Participants who have successfully completed eight workshops out of 10 and the final assessment will be eligible for exemption from six credits of the Graduate Diploma in Professional Studies or the Master in Education offered by the University of Western Australia (UWA).
HKBU launches Hong Kong's first internationally recognized professional development series for faculty
To upgrade teaching and learning quality and to enhance Hong Kong Baptist University's (HKBU) quality assurance mechanism, its Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning (CHTL) launched the Faculty Professional Development Series (FPDS), Hong Kong's first internationally recognized professional development series for the university's teaching staff, in February 2011.
The FPDS is open to full-time and part-time faculty members, teaching assistants, postgraduate students with teaching responsibilities and academic administrators. It will comprise 10 workshops, covering a wide range of areas, including outcome-based teaching and learning, using electronic platforms in teaching and assessment, learning theories and motivating student learning.
PolyU awarded South East Asia’s first Erasmus Mundus Mobility Grant
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) was awarded South East Asia's first Erasmus Mundus (EM) Mobility Grant of nearly €1.4 million (US$1.9 million) by the European Commission in December 2010. The grant will support a large-scale scholarly exchange involving faculty and postgraduate students of nine universities in Europe and South East Asia.
The EM Mobility Grant is the joint effort of a consortium consisting of nine higher education institutions across Europe and South East Asian countries, with PolyU's Faculty of Humanities as the initiating institution and coordinator in South East Asia, and Université de Provence as the overall and Europe coordinator.
The grant will be allocated to successful applicants of the nine consortium partners in a project called "MULTI – Multilingualism and Multiculturalism: Linguistic Approaches to Transition and Identity". This project, lasting three years, aims to address the linguistic, cultural and technological aspects of multilingualism, and to understand the impact of multilingualism in both European Union and South East Asian societies.
Which Asian universities shine in QS world rankings for engineering and technology?
Last year, the University of Tokyo (7th), Nanyang University of Singapore (9th), Tsinghua University (11th), Kyoto University (17th), Tokyo Institute of Technology (23rd), Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (24th) and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (26th) were the Asian universities in the top 30 for engineering and IT in the QS World University Rankings.
Come April, find out if these Asian universities will rank higher this year and if more Asian institutions will join the top 30. In previous years, QS ranked universities in five broad subject areas: Arts and humanities; engineering and IT; natural sciences; life
sciences and medicine; and social sciences. From 2011, the rankings will cover over 30 individual subjects, thus offering the most wide-ranging comparison at the departmental level.
This year' results for engineering and technology, to be released on 2 April 2011, will rank universities in computer science and these engineering disciplines - chemical, electrical and electronic, civil and structural, mechanical, aeronautical and manufacturing.
The new subject rankings will be based on established QS rankings methodology and on a combination of research citation and survey data from academics and graduate employers across the world.
City U students' business plans to market fish technology win top international awards
Hong Kong: Three students from different faculties at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have created an award winning business plan aimed at marketing transgenic fish technology developed by scientists at CityU.
The technology detects estrogen disruptors in food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and plastics in an efficient, cost-effective way. Estrogen disruptors are substances that interfere with the hormonal system in the body, a growing concern worldwide. The CityU researchers had found that their new testing mechanism was around 60% more efficient compared to existing chemical tests.
The three students - from the departments of marketing, manufacturing engineering and engineering management, and accountancy - formulated their business plan by drawing on their interdisciplinary knowledge, experience and learning to design a conceptual framework for manufacturers of food and healthcare products.
The CityU team beat more than 250 undergraduate teams to win the Hong Kong competition of the HSBC Young Entrepreneur Awards in April 2010, and a few months later secured the Best of the Best Award at the HSBC Young Entrepreneur Regional Awards in Malaysia, beating more than 1,000 teams from Bangladesh, Brunei, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand. In addition, two of the team members came in third with a similar proposal in the 5th Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition organised by Singapore Management University last July, competing with over 800 tertiary students from 40 countries.
HKBU launches Hong Kong’s first internationally recognized professional development series for faculty
To upgrade teaching and learning quality and to enhance Hong Kong Baptist University's (HKBU) quality assurance mechanism, its Centre for Holistic Teaching and Learning (CHTL) launched the Faculty Professional Development Series (FPDS), Hong Kong's first internationally recognized professional development series for the university’s teaching staff, in February 2011.
The FPDS is open to full-time and part-time faculty members, teaching assistants, postgraduate students with teaching responsibilities and academic administrators. It will comprise 10 workshops, covering a wide range of areas, including outcome-based teaching and learning, using electronic platforms in teaching and assessment, learning theories and motivating student learning.
Upon completion of the series, teaching staff will be able to adopt practical pedagogies that will help them provide students with HKBU graduate attributes. They will also be able to make use of electronic platforms and technologies in teaching and the design of assessment strategies.
The FPDS will lead to an internationally recognized pathway for further study in education. Participants who have successfully completed eight workshops out of 10 and the final assessment will be eligible for exemption from six credits of the Graduate Diploma in Professional Studies or the Master in Education offered by the University of Western Australia (UWA).
