I said in this column half a month ago that although Hong Kong is a landmark land, it has eight famous public universities, and the results in the field of higher education are impressive.Without the end of the words, the British Thames Higher Education (THE) recently announced the ranking of 2025 World University. Five universities in Hong Kong once again ranked among the top 100, becoming one of the most concentrated cities in the world.

The "THE World University Ranking" this year covers the world's 2092 universities.The University of Hong Kong ranked 35th. Like last year, he performed the best in Hong Kong colleges and universities.

Among the Chinese University rankings rose nine to 44 compared with last year, urban universities rose two places to 80th from last year.The colleges and universities fell slightly from last year to 66th.

Overall, Hong Kong universities have a three -liter and one drop in the "The World University Ranking" this year, and their performance is ideal.

This ranking is a total of 17 performance indicators in five areas including teaching, research, research quality, industry and internationalization.Hong Kong University has obvious advantages in research quality, industry and internationalization this year, with a high level of more than 90 or more.For example, in terms of internationalization, the scores of the five Hong Kong schools are more than 97 or more; in the industrial indicators, the scores of the five ports of the five ports are 93.7 or above.

Hong Kong's place is narrow, and there are five universities in the world. Looking at the world, I am afraid that there are so many top 100 universities in the second city.Why can Hong Kong be able to become an Asian education hub?

Comprehensive views of all parties believe that Hong Kong has the unique advantages, good education infrastructure, excellent scientific research talents and strong research strength of China and the West; coupled with the continuous investment in education in the Hong Kong government, it has created favorable conditions for the development of Hong Kong universities.But the outside world often ignores the fierce competition within Hong Kong universities, which is one of the reasons.

Higher education has a history of more than 100 years in Hong Kong.Founded in 1911, the University of Hong Kong was the oldest institution in Hong Kong; the Chinese University was the second university, which was founded in 1963.

As Hong Kong's demand for higher education has increased day by day, some small private colleges and universities, such as urban universities, science and engineering universities, and Baptist University, have been funded by the Hong Kong Government in the 1990s and were promoted to public universities.Essence

When I was a journalist, I was in the early days of running education, and it was just a vigorous period for the development of higher education in Hong Kong.The then Chief Executive Dong Jianhua said that investment education would never be soft, and he put a lot of resources to the universities, and the university circles were lively.For a while, almost every university has activities every day, which makes reporters from the education team exhausted.

Later, the economic development of Hong Kong was weak, and the Hong Kong government warehouses gradually could not make ends meet.Li Guozhang, then director of the Education Coordination Bureau, proposed in 2002 that the eight public universities were divided into research and teaching universities, hoping to use division of labor cooperation to improve the level of the universities.He also proposed the "Chinese University of Science and Technology", intending to gather the strength of the Chinese University and University of Science and Technology, which ranked second and third in Hong Kong universities, together with the oldest Hong Kong University, to build two world -class "super universities".

According to the concept of the Hong Kong government, this suggestion can save a lot of resources for the official.However, due to the interests of shaking some institutions, it has caused huge controversy in society, and it is impossible to get it in a few years later.

Interestingly, after this policy stopped, it made Hong Kong universities inadvertently insert willow and continue to develop.In the past two decades, "competition" has become the main theme of the college community in Hong Kong, and many universities have made great achievements with "single fighting".

For example, the competition between the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Medical College and the Chinese University of Medicine is very fierce. In addition to scientific research, there are also great fighting methods in terms of propaganda. You often hold a press conference in the morning.EssenceLater, after years of hard work, the scientific research results have been frequently promoted. The ranking of the global medical school has repeatedly reached a record high. In recent years, it has been winning the Medical College of the University of Hong Kong.This example just shows that the competition has promoted the progress of Hong Kong universities.

The same situation is also confirmed in European history.Since the 15th century, colonialism in Europe has extended an angle to the world and gradually affects all over the world.The reason for the cricket, because the "moderate split" of the European state of Europe before the 15th century, prompted countries to continue to compete and progress rapidly.

Speaking, there are different university rankings in the world. The scoring standards of different institutions are often controversial. Hong Kong universities' achievements in the "The World University Rankings" this year do not represent everything.What is worrying is that in recent years, Hong Kong colleges and universities focusing on international rankings and research results have been relatively ignored to improve their teaching quality.

Even more, in order to seize the ranking of the front position, universities are inclined to hire non -home scholars to adopt international scholars to teach, and local faculty members are becoming more and more difficult to renew their contracts.This phenomenon is not good for Hong Kong to train local talents.

In short, Hong Kong wants to build an Asian is an international university education hub. In addition to the competition ranking, the universities must also establish their own characteristics and return to the growth of the comprehensive education of college students. This is the root of education.