院长寄语

李锦兴教授

The Faculty of Accountancy, Management and Economics began as a department in 1998. In its early years the department offered diploma programmes and later partnered several overseas universities to provide franchised degree courses. Over a period until the franchised programmes ended in 2016, several hundred students graduated with the Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Business Management and the Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in Finance and Accounting. The graduates of these programmes are today holding senior positions in the corporate sector. A number went on to pursue post-graduate studies and are today lecturing or researching in local and overseas institutions of higher learning.

Then in early 2017, New Era was upgraded to university college status. This upgrading allows NEUC to offer its own degree programmes. The years of collaborating with overseas universities have well prepared staff members with the experience and the capability to develop and teach degree courses of international standard.

The Faculty presently offers different levels of programmes in business, finance and accounting. These different levels make available two academic pathways from which students who have completed their SPM or equivalent qualifications could choose. One pathway begins with the Foundation Year from where students then continue in the First Year of a degree programme. The second pathway starts with the two-year diploma study and on completion students proceed to the second-year of a degree courses.

In a rapidly globalizing world, the Faculty of Accountancy, Management and Economics offers professional programmes that respond to an industrial and corporate landscape that is continuously undergoing change. For its teaching to be updated, industry leaders are invited to serve as advisers to the various programmes. Other corporate figures regularly address staff and students on the changing demands in the business world. There are also the various forums such as conferences and dialogue sessions where Faculty members and industry leaders meet. In turn, Faculty members have been called upon to give short training courses to companies as well as to take up research projects, all of which enable them to be in touch with industry.

Importantly too, the Faculty sets itself against the high international standard required in its teaching and research. Presently, NEUC graduates from the Foundation Year, the diploma, and the degrees are accepted by overseas universities for higher level and post-graduate programmes. We will continue to collaborate with overseas universities of high international standard through student and staff exchange with universities in Japan, China, China, Australia and UK.

The Faculty believes that its mission is to provide students of all background a chance to obtain higher education and that young men and women coming out of our Faculty will not only be professionally well-trained, critical and creative, but also inculcated with values that could bring about the betterment of society.