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  • Extending the Power of Education through Knowledge Exchange

    Extending the Power of Education through Knowledge Exchange

    The Faculty of Education has a long tradition of contributing research findings and scholarship to the community. Over the years, the Faculty has been embarking on knowledge exchange activities with local and overseas policy makers, government bureau representatives, school principals, school teachers, speech and hearing specialists and information management professionals, parents, and other members of the public.

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  • At the heart of Social Sciences

    At the heart of Social Sciences

    In Molière's play Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, one of the biggest laughs comes when Monsieur Jourdain exclaims to his philosophy tutor, "Well, what do you know about that! These forty years now, I've been speaking in prose without knowing it! How grateful am I to you for teaching me that!" So it is with knowledge exchange – something the Faculty of Social Sciences has been doing these past 40 years without knowing it. Now that KE has been acknowledged and classified by UGC, however, the Faculty is delighted to move forward with yet more vigour.

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  • Free Legal Advice on HKU Campus

    Free Legal Advice on HKU Campus

    Our Faculty of Law has introduced, on a pilot basis, a Free Legal Advice Scheme on campus under the Duty Lawyer Service. It is both an educational and a public service scheme, with a view to contributing to the legal community's effort in bridging the legal services gap in Hong Kong and to nurturing the pro bono culture among our future lawyers.

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  • Madagascar's Menagerie Floated from Africa: One of the Greatest Unresolved Mysteries of Natural History has been Finally Laid to Rest

    Madagascar's Menagerie Floated from Africa: One of the Greatest Unresolved Mysteries of Natural History has been Finally Laid to Rest

    Madagascar is home to a 'bizarre' repository of creatures, many found nowhere else on Earth. But how they arrived on the island has baffled scientists for centuries. Jason Ali, Associate Professor in HKU's Department of Earth Sciences, tells the story of his research that seems to confirm the theory that the animals rafted there.

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  • HKU and the Servier Research Group Join Hands to Develop a New Line of Pharmaceutical Products in the field of Osteogenesis

    HKU and the Servier Research Group Join Hands to Develop a New Line of Pharmaceutical Products in the field of Osteogenesis

    The University of Hong Kong has collaborated with the Servier Research Group, the second largest French pharmaceutical company, on the research and development of drugs for osteogenesis.

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  • Review of Animal Welfare Legislation in Hong Kong

    Review of Animal Welfare Legislation in Hong Kong

    Research conducted through our Law Faculty's Centre for Comparative and Public Law found that Hong Kong's anti cruelty legislation lacks the necessary power to assist animals in danger of suffering and abuse.

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  • You Can Write Better English

    You Can Write Better English

    Published by our Journalism and Media Studies Centre, this is a practical handbook to help improve written English, with special focus on mistakes native Chinese speakers routinely make when writing in the language.

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