To advance the bounds of scholarship through
engagement in innovative, high impact and leading-edge research within
and across disciplines.
To provide the highest quality educational experience
to students recruited locally, regionally and from overseas, by maintaining
the highest standards of student admissions and by adding value to their
academic training in an intellectually stimulating environment.
Operational
Priorities
- Continuously review internal research strategy so as to identify areas
of excellence and strength and to formulate a policy that will build
and enhance our research excellence in basic and applied R&D
- Promote building of research teams within and across disciplines
to facilitate "area" development, to conduct high impact research
and to enhance technology transfer
- Enhance success rate in competitive research funding exercises
- Enhance publications record, and record of our scholarly output,
as an indicator of research excellence
- Expand our pool of student applicants through active promotion and
recruitment efforts regionally and overseas
- Deliver courses and degree programmes in the English language, that
are of the highest quality and in a comprehensive range of disciplines;
where course content is up-to-date, relevant to community needs, and
informed by current research; where teaching methods are appropriately
student-centred; and develop skills and competencies that will enhance
the graduates' contributions to society
- Offer students both quality and flexibility in choice of curriculum
and encourage the mounting of more joint and double degree programmes;
in particular, enhance inter-disciplinary studies
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