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- To establish
student- based academic links and interflows between United
College and other universities / higher institutions in
Asia.
- To enable students
to cultivate a deeper understanding of the social, cultural,
economic, scientific and artistic aspects of the visited
regions so as to widen their horizons.
- To enable students
to develop a better understanding of the affairs and problems
in their home country through regional studies and comparisons
so that they may be in a better position to render a more
efficacious service to their own community.
- To cultivate,
in a non- formal educational context, an academic, scholarly
attitude in the student participants.
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- The United College
shall provide the overseas budding scholars with the following
items :
(i) room and board during the official visitation period;
(ii) assistance in arranging visits to organisations and
individuals related to the study / research topic; and
(iii) two to three sight-seeing trips.
- The overseas
institution shall render the same provision for United College
budding scholars as detailed in (1).
- Continuation
of the budding scholars exchange programme is dependent
on the evaluation of the initial exchange experience and
on mutual agreement.
- The formal exchange
visit will last for a maximum of ten days.
(1) The United College budding scholars will pay their visit
in either the winter vacation (late December to early January)
or the summer vacation (late May to early September).
(2) Overseas institutions may, in consultation with United
College, decide on the date of their visitation.
- This programme
is jointly organized and supervised by the Dean of Students'
Office in each participating institution.
- An organizing
committee, consisting of representatives of the Student
Union and the Dean of Students' Office, shall be formed
to administer the programme (individual institutions may
have their own composition of the organizing committee).
- The organizing
committee is responsible for setting the research topic,
inviting academic advisors and selecting budding scholars.
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- Each participating
institution shall select 5 to 8 students to form a budding
scholars delegation, which may be accompanied by an academic/
administrative staff member. Student applicants are expected
to meet the following criteria :
- should have
a genuine interest in the research topic;
- should have
some experience and organising ability in extracurricular
activities;
- should be
proficient in the language of the host community or in
English as an international language;
- should have
reasonably good academic performance.
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- The budding
scholars shall be responsible for conducting research on
a topic chosen by the organizing committee of their own
institution, and prepare a report on it.
- The scholars
shall hold a seminar and present their research findings
in the overseas institution and, while staying there, conduct
a comparative study in the host region.
- Upon returning
to the home institution, the scholars shall hold a seminar
and present the comparative results of their study to their
fellow students.
- The scholars
shall assist in organizing activities for, and receiving,
the visiting students from the overseas institution.
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