Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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| Motto | 開物成務，勵學利民 (To learn and to apply, for the benefit of mankind) |
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| Established | 1972 as The Hong Kong Polytechnic |
| Type | Public |
| Vice-Chancellor | Chung-Kwong Poon |
| Students | 16,500 |
| Location | Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| Website | http://www.polyu.edu.hk/ |
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) (Traditional Chinese: 香港理工大學) is a university located in Hung Hom, Hong Kong, right next to the Hung Hom KCR station and the Kowloon side of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel. It is the largest tertiary institution funded by the HKSAR government in terms of student population. There are about 1,000 full-time academic staff and about 16,500 students. PolyU covers an area about 93,000 m². This education institution had a long history before it was granted full university status in 1994.
It offers many unique courses to Hong Kong students and trains many professionals every year.
The current president of the university is Chung-Kwong Poon.
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[edit] History
It was founded in 1937 as the Government Trade School in Wanchai. After World War II, in 1947, it became the Hong Kong Technical College and in 1957, the college moved to its new campus at its current site.
August 1, 1972, the Hong Kong Polytechnic was established with the campus and staff of the college transferred to it. The college offered diploma and higher diploma courses for the secondary school graduates. This provided another choice for students other than getting into HKU or CUHK at that time.
November 25, 1994, the institution was granted its full university status. However, it still offered Higher Diploma and Diploma. Mr. Poon said, "Polytechnic can be University" as there is an University, which located somewhere in USA, having the name "US Polytechnic University.
Early 1997, Mr. Poon decided to cut off Mathematics Department and deduced the course of food science. The reason was funny. "If polyu is unable to expand the class size of Occupational Therapy, Governor would accept CUHK to offer a similar course. So, it will cause all better students going to CUHK rather than POLYU", Mr. Poon said that.
Besides, Mr. Poon said, "It doesn't matter there is no Mathematics Major in POLYU because Mathematics is not a Major concern in POLYU." "A few years later, POLYU will become credit-base. So there are about 5 students graduated on Mathematics. Therefore lack of development in Mathematics is not a problem in a Polytechnic University".
July 1999, The School of Professional Education and Executive Development, SPEED was established in order to provide professional further educational courses for adults.
August 2000, HKCyberU was established. This was the frist cyber U in Hong Kong which providing the online study courses.
2002, The Hong Kong Community College, HKCC was established to offer associate degree. On October 2, there were 11,273 of PolyU staffs, students and alumni came together and broke the Guinness World Records of audience wave rainbow at that time. This was not only to cerebrate the 65th anniversary of the University, but also to raise funds for The Childhood Cancer Fundation and The Hong Kong Society for the Aged.
January 2004, the onset of phase seven and phase eight.
The time about this period, Mr. Poon said he was, not alike, a beggar responding to the policy of matching fund from government.
September 2005, Y core started to serve students and the phase seven campus almost completed.
April 2006, the University "sold" the naming right and the Y core named after Dr Lee Shau Kee.
Nowadays, PolyU offered about 200 bachelor degree to mainland students every year. Undergraduates either go for postgraduate programs in other brillant universities worldwide or participate in their own fields in commercial companies and have outstanding achievements.
Mr. Poon not only sells the name of buildings or rooms. He also sells the name of the trees at campus. Today he is going to selling the name of the "red brick". How marvelous is connecting Hong Kong Trade School with HKPU, ever red brick!
Lead by Mr. Poon 16 years, HKPU still trains up many many outstanding people. It reflects Hong Kong being a most important commerical center on the World. Mr. Poon is suitable for being CEO, even CE of Hong Kong rather than be a Professor, a teacher or even private tutor. Letting him be a leader at campus is wasting his life.
On 1st December, 2006, Mr. Poon was begging the money for POLYU's student or his housing allowance from donald tsang in ceremony again.
Hopeful, he can learn in life-time being a human-being with culture.
[edit] List of faculties and schools
- Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles
- Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology
- Department of Applied Mathematics
- Department of Applied Physics
- Institute of Textiles and Clothing
- Faculty of Business
- Graduate School of Business
- School of Accounting and Finance
- Department of Logistics
- Department of Management and Marketing
- Faculty of Communication
- Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
- (incorporating Chinese Language Centre)
- Department of English
- School of Design
- English Language Centre
- General Education Centre
- Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies
- Faculty of Construction and Land Use
- Department of Building and Real Estate
- Department of Building Services Engineering
- Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
- Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
- Faculty of Engineering
- Department of Computing
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- Department of Electronic and Information Engineering
- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Faculty of Health and Social Sciences
- Department of Applied Social Sciences
- Department of Health Technology and Informatics
- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
- School of Nursing
- School of Optometry
- School of Nursing
- School of Design
- School of Hotel and Tourism Management
- School of Professional Education and Executive Development (SPEED)
- Hong Kong Community College (HKCC)
- Hong Kong CyberU (HKCyberU)
SPEED, HKCC & HKCyberU provides self-financed education programmes.
[edit] Big Mouth Corner
The Big Mouth Corner (BMC) is a weekly English conversation forum organised by the English Club of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). The BMC which involved both local students and young native English speakers (who serve as English facilitators) was first started in 2002 following the success of its predecessor, the Chat Point. As of May 2005, over 1000 PolyU students have joined this activity.
[edit] Famous alumni - no matter which course they studied
- Wong Kar Wai - film director
- Freeman Lau - product designer
- Gigi Leung - singer, actor and songwriter
- Raman Hui - animator
- Vivienne Tam - fashion designer
- Cyndi Chan - Chicago fashion designer
- Wong Koon Chung Paul - composer, songwriter, singer and the lead guitarist of the Hong Kong rock band Beyond.
- Alice Mak - artist and cartoonist, mother of cartoon characters McMug and McDull.
[edit] See also
- Education in Hong Kong
- List of universities in Hong Kong
- List of buildings and structures in Hong Kong
