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15 Jan 2001
Universities today face a number of challenges. Changing societal needs, rising expectations about education, economic developments, and technological advances all help shape the role of academic institutions.
15 Jan 2001
Ready as always to aid the people of Hong Kong, CityU is working hard to establish a community college that will help meet the expected boom in tertiary students over the next decade. Universities today face a number of challenges. Changing societal needs, rising expectations about education, economic developments, and technological advances all help shape the role of academic institutions.
15 Jan 2001
Secondary school principals from Diocesan Girl's School, King's College, Homantin Government Secondary School, Bishop Hall Jubilee School and Lee Kau Yan Memorial School paid a visit to CityU on 15 January.
10 Jan 2001
City University today announced the appointment of Professor Kevin Hewison, who recently joined the Department of Applied Social Studies, as the Director of the University's Southeast Asia Research Centre (SEARC). The SEARC, which is based in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, was established in September 2000. It is one of three new Faculty Research Centres set up by CityU last year.
03 Jan 2001
CityU's Language Information Sciences Research Centre (LISRC) launched a Celebrity Roster for Chinese news media on the Web on 1 January 2001. Updated every fortnight, the Roster is an index of the top 25 most newsworthy celebrities who have appeared in the news media in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing in the previous two weeks.
01 Jan 2001
Students who took part in the Student Exchange Programme 1999/2000 have returned to campus. They received certificates from the Vice-President (Institutional Advancement) and Vice-President (Education) at a sharing session on 6 December, and talked to fellow students about their exchange experience.
01 Jan 2001
The development of information technology at the University has reached a stage where, according to President H K Chang, a new position of Chief Information Officer is needed "to effectively pull the different pieces together."
01 Jan 2001
Step into the office of Professor Richard Ho, Dean of Faculty of Business, and what immediately catches your eye are the two--not one-- computer monitors sitting side by side on his desktop.
01 Jan 2001
The Interactive MBA (iMBA) programme offered by the Faculty of Business won the Certificate of Merit of IT Excellence Awards organized by the Hong Kong Computer Society, in recognition of its quality, functionality, innovation and originality.
01 Jan 2001
It has often been said that one of the most effective ways of conducting research is to visit the physical stacks at a library. But with the growing amount of online information available today, books, journals and research papers are only a mouse-click away.