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Hwa Chong - Beijing Satellite Campus
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华中北京卫星校园
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Hwa Chong - Beijing Satellite Campus
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"All [Hwa Chong] students on the bicultural programme have the opportunity to study in Beijing and be immersed in the environment there for several months. There, they will see for themselves what China is like, experience its economic dynamism and soak in its culture and social environment. These new approaches are innovative, popular and effective."
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
National Day Rally Speech
19 August 2007
The Hwa Chong - Beijing campus offers experiential learning outside the classroom to enhance students' understanding of Chinese literature, culture and the arts, as well as contemporary developments in China. It also aims to nurture in students a deeper appreciation of Chinese culture and a good understanding of China.
Nurturing a Core Group of Bi-cultural Elite for Singapore
The Hwa Chong-Beijing Campus is part of our initiative as a Future School to set up satellite campuses in strategic cities of the world, starting with Beijing. We will also establish a virtual campus offering e-learning courses by Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY). The strategic tie-up between Singapore, Beijing and Stanford will create a golden opportunity for closer collaboration. This is in line with Hwa Chong's tradition of drawing from the best of the East and West to equip our students with a global perspective.
The reason for setting up a satellite campus is to facilitate a sustained and durable immersion for students in the school's Bi-Cultural Studies Programme (BSP). |
"Beijing, as China's capital, is an ideal location for Hwa Chong students to further deepen their socio-political knowledge of the country. By establishing close links with top Chinese schools and allowing for greater interaction between the student leaders of both countries, closer bilateral ties can be forged."
"China is emerging as a dominant player in the world economy. As an independent school with deep roots in Chinese traditions, Hwa Chong aims to nurture a core group of the nation's best and brightest to engage China. We want to develop in our students a deeper appreciation of Chinese culture and language and a good understanding of the country. This will enable us to be part of the exchange of ideas, culture and business between China and Singapore," said CEO/Principal Mr Ang Wee Hiong.
From Beijing, students will also have opportunities to move out to other cities like Tianjin and Xi'an. In this regard, Hwa Chong's extensive links with the education community and with civic leaders in major cities and provinces give it considerable leverage in working with the mainland Chinese.
Seamless Study Opportunities between Singapore and Beijing
The Hwa Chong-Beijing Campus provides seamless study opportunities for our students between Singapore and China. Because the system of education replicates the HCI model, students are able to spend longer periods of cultural immersion in China without missing out on the Singapore curriculum. Our Hwa Chong teachers are also physically and virtually present to attend to the learning needs of our students in Beijing, via video conferencing and online digital resources.
There will be ample opportunity for our students to interact with the locals in China. We hope to encourage meaningful cross-cultural interactions between Hwa Chong and PRC students through joint-activities in CCA and collaborative projects like research, combined community involvement, industrial visits and attachments, home-stays, and fieldtrips to cities beyond Beijing. There will also be opportunities for Hwa Chong students to organise English-related clubs and societies for the local students in China.
Click here to visit the official website of the HCI Beijing Satellite Campus.
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Hwa Chong's School of the Future
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"The proposal for HCI caters to the multidimensional learning needs of its web-savvy students by leveraging web 2.0 technologies such as blogging and videoconferencing in its learning curriculum. Through a virtual campus called the Hwa Chong Nexus, HCI students will be able to collaborate via social interactions, share information for brainstorming sessions and gather feedback through peer reviews"
RAdm(NS) Ronnie Tay
CEO IDA Singapore
At the FutureSchools@Singapore
Call-for-Collaboration Award Media Briefing
13 May 2008
Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) is pleased to announce that the school has been selected by the Ministry of Education to implement the Future Schools@Singapore (FS@SG) in 2008.
To Develop Passionate Learners with Global Perspective.
The 4 key focus areas are to :
(1) Set up a Global Academy
(2) Offer Advanced research programmes with partners worldwide
(3) Create Diverse learning environments, and
(4) Evolve new values.
Global Academy
Learning in the future will no longer be confined to the Hwa Chong campus at Bukit Timah. Instead, learning will transcend boundaries between subjects, classrooms, schools, countries and cultures. Working in communal space with notebooks, teachers and students choose to spend as much (or as little) time as they wish in school. Space and time become less standardized and more flexible. With its Global Academy, HCI will establish a virtual campus as well as satellite campuses at strategic locations in China, India and the United States.
"With Hwa Chong's Future School, we will adopt a borderless learning environment. From the school's perspective, the goal is to create an environment where students learn a way of life from the one they would lead in the future." said CEO/Principal Ang Wee Hiong.
We will also collaborate with partners worldwide on high-impact instructional and curriculum innovations. Exchange programmes with schools overseas like Beijing's 2nd High School attached to Beijing Normal University, Brisbane's Grammar School and California's Monta Vista High School will be further enhanced by leveraging web- and video-conferencing technologies and online learning portals. |
Advanced Research Programmes
Hwa Chong's Future School will involve students in virtual mentorship schemes with industry captains and experts overseas. Students will also enjoy industrial attachment with leading global companies and take on self-directed research. Students will negotiate their learning beyond the confines of the Hwa Chong classroom and co-create knowledge with peers, teachers, adjunct professors and specialist-mentors. Through our Global Academy, students of different age groups, talents and abilities from different schools across continents will have many opportunities to collaborate on long-term advanced research projects in areas like nanotechnology, life sciences, democracy, AIDS and poverty.
Diverse Learning Environments
The school intends to transform its various physical spaces into a vibrant and stimulating environment where learning takes place anytime, anywhere. The key levers include technologies like high-speed wireless broadband and network computers for peer-to-peer collaboration within and outside the school compound.
Creative and critical thinking dispositions will be nurtured through collaborative explorations and discussions conducted in real and virtual learning environments. Independent learning is facilitated through the use of online case-studies and course modules hosted on e-learning platforms.
Evolution of New Values
Said Mr Ang: "With technology, the role of teacher is more important than ever. Increasingly as students begin to take greater charge and control of what they want to study and when and how, the school must continue to provide the moral guidance for young people to keep their bearing and direction in the emerging global culture."
In the end, the school will concern itself not merely with technological and cultural change, but the evolution of new values that will help sustain humanity and transform society.
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