Obtaining a quality education is the foundation to improving people’s lives and sustainable development.
As a global leader in Quality Education, inclusiveness and equality are at the heart of Lingnan University’s teaching and learning, student admissions, student affairs and services, quality assurance as well as its governance. Lingnan’s excellence in knowledge transfer promotes equality in education and in society.
Joint-university project: Sustainability Education Inventory
This inventory of sustainability coursework is developed in 2022 to ensure that 100% of our students are exposed to sustainability ideas, concepts, and skill-building, which are emerging topics worldwide nowadays.
LU admits elite student-athlete through Direct Entry Stream for Top Athletes
Athletes admitted through the scheme will receive a scholarship of up to HK$400,000 for three years from LU, which covers living and learning expenses, as well as international exchange opportunities. Additional medical care and insurance coverage will also be provided.
LU and Oxford study establishes new theory of “decredentialisation” that protects degree holders with good cognitive skills
The study finds that credential inflation operates as lower-level tertiary education expands but that “decrentialisation” emerges in tandem with higher-level tertiary expansion, such that university graduates retain rewards despite their diminishing scarcity as long as they possess good cognitive skills.
LU hosts Health Tech Start-up Webinar Series for industry development and entrepreneurship
Lingnan University and Cyberport co-organised the “Health Tech Start-up Webinar Series: Technology, Health, and Service”, offering scholars, students, practitioners and the public a comprehensive and multilateral view of the latest developments in the health-tech start up industry, and its entrepreneurial outlook in Hong Kong.
Support for Special Educational Needs (SEN) students
LU provides full support and services for students with special needs, from help with learning and career advice to scholarships, and financial assistance for activities and events, ensuring every student has an equal opportunity to learn, enjoy their social life and progress during their studies at Lingnan.
Lingnan University Joins Hands with Kwai Tsing District Health Centre in promoting Gerontechnology and Tackling Dementia
The LU Jockey Club Gerontechnology and Smart Ageing (GTSA) Project collaborated with the Kwai Tsing District Health Centre (K&TDHC) on community outreach events and a gerontech product showcase on dementia.
LU humanitarian inventions win prestigious international design awards
The Lingnan Entrepreneurship Initiative (LEI) received two Golds in the Conceptual Design category of the international MUSE Design Awards for their CREW Wheelchair Control System and 12° Mask.
New Concentration “Environment and Sustainability”
Concentration on Environment and Sustainability under the Master of Cities and Governance focuses on sustainability and emerging environmental problems, highlighting the unfolding topic on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) concepts and planning.
Award-winning LU Wheelchair Control System assists caregivers and improves safety
The Lingnan Entrepreneurship Initiative (LEI) has developed the CREW Wheelchair Control System which intelligently predicts a carer’s intentions so as to better control a wheelchair, improving the safety of both wheelchair users and carers.
Design thinking workshop cultivates innovation and entrepreneurship
The workshop provides a platform for representatives of universities, NGOs and co-working spaces to learn design thinking and exchange insights on innovation and entrepreneurship education in tertiary education institutes.
Joint Humanitarian Entrepreneurship Summer Academy 2021 to Achieve SDG Virtually
The programme organised by Office of Service-Learning and Lingnan Entrepreneurship Initiative gathered students from 13 different countries spreading over 4 continents to address challenges of economic and environmental sustainability.
Master of Cities and Governance
The programme aims to equip students with the type of practical skills and understandings required to tackle the huge challenges facing today’s mega-cities and regions.
Minor in Environmental and Scientific Literacy
This minor course focuses on the development of “science literacy” as a lifelong skill that can be applied to a variety of scientific and technological issues, rather than the mastery of content knowledge in a specific scientific discipline.
MPhil in Environmental Science
This programme equips students with a strong theoretical background in environmental sciences, as well as provide a diversity of hands-on, experiential experiences needed to be successful in this field.
Financial Support and Scholarships for Postgraduate Students
The University and the School of Graduate Studies offer a wide range of financial support and schemes to postgraduate students from low and middle-income countries around the world.
Exchange Scholarships and need-based financial aid for Student Exchange Programmes 2021/2022
This programme offers exchange scholarships and need-based financial aid to eligible outgoing students. Recipients may receive full sponsorship of exchange costs.
Lingnan Graduate Support Fund
In order to support our graduates facing the adverse economic impact of the pandemic, the University established the Graduate Support Fund in 2020 to implement graduate support programmes.
LU designs self-assessment test to improve the psychological wellbeing of people in quarantine
Wofoo Joseph Lee Consulting and Counselling Psychology Research Centre designed a self-assessment questionnaire and intervention exercise to help people in quarantine cope better psychologically.