Art across the Disciplines

Art’s value is usually couched in terms of its aesthetics, but it can also be a window to understanding history, science and technology, the evolution of language and all sorts of disciplines. The problem for Hong Kong students and residents is that there have been...

Educating for the Future

Children with special educational needs (SEN) need extra support throughout their school days. But typically, training for this support has not been offered where it could arguably do the most good – among early childhood educators.Interventions usually work best if...

Outside-of-Class Action

Launched in 2010, the Clinical Legal Education (CLE) programme is still the only live client programme offering preliminary legal advice to ordinary citizens in Hong Kong. Over those 13 years, the programme has handled more than 2,600 cases under the Free Legal Advice...

Breaking down Barriers

HKU’s Common Core was launched in 2012 to bring together undergraduate students from all faculties to engage in multidisciplinary emerging topics, ranging from climate change to nature-inspired innovations to Chinese cities to the human mind. Its 150-plus courses have...

A Garden Grows at HKU

Jane Zhang Qinya, a fourth-year BA(Linguistics) student, spent much of her first three years at HKU doing online learning due to pandemic restrictions. It could get lonely, so she sought company through online events to connect with others. One of her most fruitful...