Local universities looking for challenges abroad

International exchange programs or partnerships have been gradually introduced by universities around the world. If “no man is an Island”: higher education institutions understand that they cannot play a great role when standing alone and isolated from the rest of the academic community. Creating work relationships with other universities around the world seems the right path to take. In Macau, universities and other higher education institutions are trying to become “more global” and are hoping to increase their academic standards.
With the current school year coming to an end, educational institutions in Macau are looking to sign further agreements with other universities around the globe and are setting up new partnerships in the coming year. This year, the University of Macau sent 250 students abroad, hoping to turn them into “citizens of the world” (to learn more read interview with Vice-Rector Simon Ho). The intention of the university is to raise the number of international students in the new campus, currently under construction on Hengqin Island. Read more...