Hong Kong unis to enrol students unable to travel
Several Hong Kong universities have launched schemes so that local students unable to go abroad can study with them and later transfer overseas.
Several Hong Kong universities have launched schemes so that local students unable to go abroad can study with them and later transfer overseas.
The U21 Award for internationalisation has been awarded to two academics in Asia, John Spinks of HKU and Kazuo Kuroda of Waseda University, Japan.
While Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong may have captured the world’s imagination with his bold form of student activism, the heaving crowds, television cameras and pop star visits of late 2014 have since been relegated to archival news footage. But how did those events impact on Hong Kong’s student cohort and the international ambitions of its education sector? Tom Spurling reports.