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23 Jun 2022

Research by Hong Kong Metropolitan University and Hong Kong Child-rity Association
finds that government funding encourages kindergartens to admit ethnic minority students

Since the 2019/20 academic year, the Government has subsidized kindergartens under the Kindergarten Education Scheme (KES) to encourage local kindergartens to admit ethnic minority (EM)...

31 May 2022

HKMU promotes STEAM education in secondary schools with support of The Hong Kong Jockey Club

With support of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, HKMU rolled out the Jockey Club STEAM Education Resources Sharing Scheme to provide teaching support for secondary schools and to promote STEAM education in Hong Kong...

19 May 2022

Probiotics proved to enhance fish growth performance

A research team of the School of Science and Technology has found that using a common probiotic bacterium, Lactobacillus Rhamnosus strain GG (LGG), as the feed supplement for cultivation of mud carp fingerling can improve the growth performance of the fish and enhance its resistance against the infection of pathogenic bacterial Aeromonas hydrophila....

12 Apr 2022

New anti-virus technology developed

Partnering with a start-up company, HKMU discovers that strong positively polar polymeric filter can effectively arrest and inactivate viruses and bacteria including the SAR-Cov-2 virus in a short period of time. This technology can be applied to medical and other daily use products to protect public health....

30 Mar 2022

Integrating into Hong Kong - Starting with South Asian Food and Music

As a multi-cultural society, Hong Kong has attracted many ethnic minorities to settle in. In a recent study, Dr Terence Shum Chun-tat, Assistant Professor of the School of Arts and Social Sciences, found that food and music are key components of South Asian culture that help ethnic minorities to express, retain and construct their own culture in the new social environment....

10 Nov 2021

都會大學與深圳兩大機構合作 建立大灣區紅樹林濕地研發中心 (in Chinese)

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10 Nov 2021

HKMU collaborates with major Shenzhen institutions to establish the Greater Bay Area Mangrove Wetland Research and Development Centre

Hong Kong Metropolitan University, the authority of Guangdong Neilingding Futian National Nature Reserve and Shenzhen University signed a framework agreement earlier to jointly establish the "Greater Bay Area Mangrove Wetland Research and Development Centre" to promote the cooperation between Shenzhen and Hong Kong. ...

21 Sep 2021

The latest top-funded RGC projects

In the latest round of the Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector of the Research Grants Council, HKMU has achieved pleasing results in the Scheme, and has been granted research funding of over HK$16.1 million for eighteen projects....

21 Sep 2021

HKMU achieves pleasing results in the RGC funding schemes

Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) achieves remarkable results in the latest round of the Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector of...

19 Jul 2021

World's top scientist leads OUHK research team - Interview with Prof. Nora Tam

Prof. Nora Tam Fung-yee has been engaged in environmental science research for 40 years. She is the first scholar in the world to discover the ability and mechanism of mangroves in purifying sewage and degrading persistent organic toxic pollutants. Joining the OUHK last year as Chair Professor of Environmental Science and Conservation, Prof. Tam is now leading the research team of the Centre for Research in Environmental Science to further enhance the University’s scientific research capabilities....