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The impacts of the higher education expansion on education quality in China : evidence from Shenzhen University
No full textWithin the expansion of higher education in China, education quality should be considered into the process of reform and establishment, which is highly related to the resources of faculty and performances of management. It is crucial that universities sustainably conduct diverse academic research and meet the needs of community. Faced with the policy reform and opening up, China has more opportunities on cooperating with oversea education institutions and taking in overseas management system. This research explores the general quality assessment on higher education and the solution to balance the needs of domestic society and the growth of international education competitiveness, in order to provide supportive instruments to government on placing educational policy and managers in higher education on leading the development with competitive quality. Existing scholarship reveals that the expansion of higher education cannot effectively hedge the rapid growth of student number and solve the inequalities of educational opportunities. Moreover, the quality of higher education still has many puzzles in the following development which should cover domestic regulations on the process from quantitative improvement to qualitative improvement, while discussion on quality eager to concentrate on the relationship between government and society with co-existence of different approaches of promotion. This thesis is conducted by qualitative analysis, adhering with the finding information from semi-structured interviews. Interviewees are selected from Shenzhen University and Shenzhen Education Bureau by snowball collection, which is designed to comprehensively reflect the thinking on higher education expansion from the front line of teaching and management. Based on the suggestions from interview participants, government should keep a main perspective in the development of higher education in China and maintain a close cooperation with overseas institutions to help graduates develop individual competencies within the international competitiveness
The post-COVID-19 pandemic study abroad intentions of Chinese undergraduate students : a case study of Shenzhen
No full textChina has the largest potential outward international student population of any country in the world. However, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic impeded the international mobility of Chinese students. In 2023, China’s government lifted the restrictions that had been put in place to control the pandemic. Consequently, it is imperative to understand the aspirations of students regarding studying abroad in the post-pandemic era. This study explored changes in the motivations and intentions of Shenzhen undergraduates regarding studying abroad. A qualitative research methodology was adopted for this study. This research lies in its use of in-depth interviews with Shenzhen undergraduates with different academic backgrounds. Specifically, the push–pull framework was used to conduct an in-depth exploration of the willingness of third-year undergraduates at Shenzhen universities to study abroad at postgraduate level in the post-pandemic period and the push–pull factors influencing their intentions. The universities were categorised into three academic levels: Project 985 institutions, Tier 1 institutions, and other (“ordinary”) institutions. The 52 student participants were recruited from five academic disciplines: chemistry, materials, economics, social science, and clinical medicine. The study revealed that in all disciplines, the willingness of the Project 985 university undergraduates to study abroad exceeded that of those studying at the Tier 1 and ordinary universities. At all three levels of universities, the undergraduates majoring in economics and chemistry had the highest willingness to study abroad and those majoring in materials had the lowest willingness to study abroad. The study found that, the Chinese government’s policies on “anti-corruption in medicine” and “anti-corruption in finance” have increased the willingness of economics, chemistry and clinical medicine students from Project 985 and the Tier 1 university to study abroad. Employment prospects, academic quality of China’s postgraduate schools, and parental support were common factors determining willingness to study abroad for undergraduates across the three levels of universities. It was also revealed that the United States was the country to which the Project 985 and Tier 1 undergraduates were most interested in going abroad to study. Academic quality, employment opportunities, campus environment in the United States were cited as pull factors. The United Kingdom was the study abroad country of choice for the undergraduates at the ordinary university. Academic quality, postgraduate course reputation and recognition, duration of programmes and cultural experiences in the United Kingdom were cited as pull factors. This study suggests that the Chinese government\u27s anti-corruption policies in finance and medicine have fuelled the intentions of China\u27s key universities clinical medicine, chemistry, and finance students to study abroad and work in foreign countries. Therefore, there is a need for the Chinese government to consider the impact on graduate students in this field when implementing policies that have a significant impact on the industry
Talks on Happiness | 快樂講：「風吹不倒」積極人生分享講座
No full text香港傷健協會的培訓導師高小亮先生於2024年4月19日蒞臨嶺南大學圖書館分享他對快樂的見解。高先生透過自己的人生經驗，分享他如何面對逆境和了解快樂。
提起傷殘人士，主流印象往往只有兩個：生命鬥士或弱勢社群。其實傷殘人士的角色身份一樣多姿多釆，亦可以透過自己的方式去貢獻社會。透過講座分享，分享者呈現精彩人生，參加者可以立體地了解傷殘人士的生命，體會分享者樂觀積極的精神﹑不亢不卑的態度。https://commons.ln.edu.hk/video_photos/1305/thumbnail.jp
Lingnan Gardeners Newsletter (No. 69) = 彩園通訊 (第69期)
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《設計教育創新》研討會 = Seminar on Innovation in Design Education
No full text會議議程
致歡迎辭 / 冷明明教授，嶺南大學商學院院長
致開幕辭 / 魯曉波教授，清華大學文科資深教授
主題發言：城市更新時代的設計教育模式創新的思考 / 金江波教授，上海大學上海美術學院執行院長
主題發言：數智時尚觀察與教育轉型思考 / 詹炳宏教授，北京服裝學院副院長
圓桌討論：新質生產力下的設計創新教育 / 嘉賓：（按姓氏拼音排序） 蔡新元教授，華中科技大學建築與城市規劃學院副院長 陳婷婷教授，嶺南大學管理學系系主任 覃京燕教授，北京科技大學智能科學與技術學院副院長 劉根鈺先生，中國博奇環保（控股）有限公司執行董事 徐飛教授，清華大學傳統工藝與材料研究文化和旅遊部重點實驗室研究員 朱永磊先生，貝恩公司全球合伙人、大中國區戰略業務主
孫輩照顧者面對的挑戰研究報告
Get PDF背景和目的香港人口老齡化和長期病患者的增加，令到更多老年人需要人照顧。現時社會對孫輩照顧者的認識不足，使到他們缺乏適切支援服務。本研究旨在探索孫輩照顧殘疾或患有慢性疾病的祖父母的情況，並提出政策與服務建議。嶺南大學亞太老年學研究中心聯同救世軍護老者協會及救世軍護老者服務於2024年4月25日舉辦了「孫輩照顧者的需要、實踐及政策」研討會，各方持份者分享他們對支援孫輩照顧者的經驗和看法，共同尋找方案支援這類照顧者。
研究方法本研究於2023年4月至12月期間，採用深度訪談 (in-depth interview) 方式，訪問了共40位年齡介乎13至63歲的孫輩照顧者，瞭解他們成為照顧者的主要原因、提供了甚麼照顧，以及照顧過程中面對的困難。
研究結果 大部分受訪的孫輩照顧者 (67.5%) 為次照顧者，近半受訪者每周提供20小時以上的照顧工作。 共有47位祖父母/外祖父母受到照顧，年齡介乎62至99歲。大部分被照顧者 (91.5%) 行動不便，或患有長期病患 (76.6%)。被照顧祖父母當中過半 (57.4%) 沒有與孫輩同住，8.5%為獨居。 孫輩成為照顧者有數個原因，包括家庭成員無法提供照顧、減輕父母的壓力和回饋祖父母過往照顧之恩。 孫輩照顧者的照顧角色與他們的年齡、生活狀態、能力，以及被照顧者的需要有關。大部分孫輩照顧者和家人分擔照顧工作，並得到他們的協助。孫輩照顧者會主動運用各種輔助設備，以提高照顧成效。 孫輩照顧者除了要面對一般照顧者的困難外 (如支援服務及資訊不足、身心壓力和社交限制)，他們面對的壓力還包括學業及就業、家庭角色的衝突、「夾心」照顧者面對多重壓力，以及缺乏社會的認同。 政策建議研究報告建議政府須加強院校對就學照顧者的支持、提供額外假期予在職照顧者、將照顧者主題納入中學課程、推廣朋輩支援小組、提供線上及晚間照顧技巧課程、開發多元化暫託服務、建立個案管理制度，以及推動樂齡科技之運用
Qualification mismatch and labour market outcomes : evidence from empirical study in mainland China
No full textThe development of education and the enhancement of employment quality are crucial to national economic growth and social stability. While the expansion of education in China has raised the educational level of workers, the problem of overeducation has also become more and more prominent. It has become an essential factor that hinders workers\u27 high-quality employment. This study defines the connotation of overeducation from the micro level. It measures the employment quality of workers from four dimensions: objective wage income, occupational mobility, and subjective job satisfaction and turnover intention, based on the principle of combining subjectivity and objectivity in the construction of indicators. A theoretical analysis framework of overeducation\u27s impact on workers\u27 employment quality is constructed from a multidisciplinary perspective. Finally, a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods is used, taking into account the current situation of overeducation and the characteristics of labour market development in mainland China. Using micro-data from the China Family Panel Survey (CFPS) and the China General Social Survey (CGSS), as well as in-depth interviews with employees and employers, the impact of overeducation on employment quality and its mechanism of action were empirically examined and explored.
The main research findings are as follows: Both theoretical analyses and quantitative empirical tests show that overeducation reduces workers\u27 wage income and job satisfaction, increases their propensity to leave, and does not contribute to upward occupational mobility. These are contrary to the connotations of high employment quality, implying that overeducation generally reduces the employment quality at the same level of education. Employee and employer choices about the job-education mismatch have important implications for employment quality, with graduates who are passively resigned to their current jobs and wish to change their disadvantaged position through overeducation likely to be discouraged. Moreover, employers responding to the trend of educational expansion by recruiting overeducated employees do not fully use excess human capital. China\u27s traditional utilitarian values of learning and entrenched views of employment make it impossible to meet key career expectations, and the employment quality for overeducated workers will decline. Education-job matches, key career expectations and employment quality constantly change at different career development and life course stages. Employers are well aware of the overeducation problem they now face. However, they still believe that the mechanics of internal labour markets kicked in based on merit-based performance rather than qualification and that managing the career aspirations of graduates is a big challenge. The present research makes up for the weak research on overeducation in China and opens the black box of the relationship between overeducation and employment quality. In reality, it can also provide a policy basis for the Chinese government to guide schools to deepen their reforms, enterprises to optimise human capital allocation, and individuals to invest rationally in education and choose employment
Theme Three : Health and Community Sustainability (III)
No full textModerator: LAU Kin Chi (Lingnan University)
1. A Change of Meaning. Stop the Climate Emergency, Assuming Ourselves as Ecosystems
Speaker: Claudia CABALLERO (Multitrueke Mixiuhca Network, Mexico)
2. The MST in the Fight Against Agribusiness: the Experiences of Agroecological Rice Cooperatives
Speaker: Salete CAROLLO (Porto Alegre Agricultural Production Cooperatives,Brazil)
3. Digital Change and Ecology, Production, and Livelihoods of Rural Communities
Speaker: YANG Shuai (Beijing Institute of Technology
Theme Two : Health and Sustainability (III)
No full textModerator: Anita RAMPAL (University of Delhi, India)
1. The Decadent West and the New Socialist World Order
Speaker: Michael HUDSON(Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, USA)
2. Development, Sustainability, and Ecological/Communitarian Health
Speaker: Ana Esther CECENA(National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico)
3. Cuba\u27s Experiences in Healthcare
Speaker: Remy HERRERA (National Center of Scientific Research, France)
4. Theorising the South Solidarity of the Oppressed and Diversification of Globalisation
Speaker: YIN Zhiguang (Fudan University
Theme One : Cultural Traditions, Physical and Mental Health, and Sustainability (II)
No full textModerator: HUANG Ping (Executive Vice President, Chinese Institute of Hong Kong)
Public Lecture by Distinguished Speaker
The Art of Painting and Calligraphy, and Physical and Mental Health
Speaker : PAN Gongkai (Former Dean of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Director of Fudan Art Institute, Fudan University)
Respondent : WANG Hui (Director, Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University