Press Release, SDGs | 21 April 2021

// Professor Rocky S. Tuan, Vice-Chancellor and President of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) joined the International Higher Education Forum 2021 hosted by the Universities UK International on 14 April 2021.  In the Forum, Professor Tuan called for stronger international collaboration in what he described as the ‘three-legged stool’ of higher education, namely education, research and service.  In particular, he urged for greater collaboration in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which serve as unifying themes for different communities of people across the globe.  He considered that SDG10, the goal of reducing inequalities, as the most important one as it is the root of many different societal problems.  He illustrated this by citing CUHK’s global engagement efforts including a Virtual Student Exchange programme launched last fall under the Association of Pacific Rim Universities which has attracted participation from 26 universities across four continents. //

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