教資會八大院校「研究評審」結果發表，嶺大表現突出
美國的博雅學院一般只注重教學，嶺南大學(下稱「嶺大」)則不同，除了重視教學質素外，教員亦須致力于研究工作，力求教學與研究二者同步並進，達致卓越，希冀成為一所「超級博雅大學」(“liberal arts-plus university”)。剛由香港教育資助委員會(下稱「教資會」)公佈的八大院校「2006年研究評審」結果顯示，嶺大在其商學、社會科學及人文學等三個學術領域中表現突出，証實嶺大正邁向「超級博雅大學」之路。
2006研究評審結果突顯出嶺大三項重要成就：
（一） 嶺大的整體研究表現指數由1999年的38.85%倍增至2006年的76.35%，增長了約100%。以整體研究表現指數而言，嶺大成為八所院校中表現最佳的院校之一，排名第四，僅次於三所“研究型大學”。
（二） 嶺大的三個學術領域分別隸屬教資會2006年研究評審的三個評審組別，即「商科及經濟學」，「社會科學」及「人文學」。在上述三個組別中，嶺大的組別研究表現指數均高於八院校的指數平均值，其中「商科及經濟學」的指數為84.14%，在八大院校中名列第二（見附表一）。
（三） 在個別的成本中心（教資會將院校的學科評審分為13組合計59學科或稱成本中心進行）研究評審中，嶺大的學科納入其中的9個成本中心，當中共有7個成本中心或學科的表現高於八大院校的平均指數值，這些學科分別為會計，商學，經濟，社會科學（政治與社會學），中文，英文，翻譯（見附表二）。據理解，嶺大至少有一個成本中心或學科的研究指數值踞八所院校之冠。
教資會公佈的2006年研究評審結果顯示，近年來嶺大教員在研究成果方面取得了輝煌的成果。與1999年的研究評審相比，教資會於2006年的評審中採用了更為嚴謹的標準。儘管如此，嶺大的2006年研究表現指數躍升至76.35%（1999：38.85%），成為研究表現指數增長最高之院校。
嶺大雖然於2006年的研究評審中表現突出，惟大學同仁並不以此自滿，仍將繼續在教學與研究工作力求更佳成績。
UGC’s 2006 Research Assessment Exercise Results Confirm Lingnan’s Excellence in Research
(Hong Kong – 2 March 2007) As a liberal arts university, Lingnan University (“Lingnan” or “the University”) is fully committed to quality teaching as well as excellence in research. Where some liberal arts colleges in the US focus only on teaching, we pride ourselves as a “liberal arts-plus” university which also excels in research. This is confirmed in the UGC 2006 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results just released. The University is very pleased to learn that its research strengths stretch across all its three academic areas, i.e. arts, social sciences and business studies.
Lingnan’s 2006 RAE results show the following achievements:
1) Its institution-wide research performance index doubled to 76.35% from 38.85% in the last RAE in 1999. Lingnan is happy to note that its overall research index of 76.35% places itself as one of the best performing UGC-funded institutions in terms of the 2006 RAE results. Indeed, Lingnan ranked fourth after the three “research intensive” universities.
2) Lingnan performed well in all the three RAE panels (namely Business Studies & Economics Panel, Social Sciences Panel and Humanities Panel) under which its thirteen academic departments are grouped. The research indexes of all its three panels surpassed the sector-wide average. In fact, its Business Studies and Economics Panel ranked second with an index of 84.14% (see Table 1).
3) In terms of the nine cost centres which Lingnan were assessed, the research indexes of seven cost centres, namely (1) Accountancy, (2) Business Studies, (3) Economics, (4) Other Social Sciences (Politics & Sociology), (5) Chinese, (6) English, and (7) Translation surpassed the sector-wide average. As shown in Table 2, the research indexes of Lingnan’s cost centres compare very favourably with those of the other universities in Hong Kong. It is believed that at least one of Lingnan’s fields ranks first among the eight UGC-funded institutions.
The results of Lingnan’s 2006 RAE demonstrate the remarkable achievement of the University in this area. Even though the UGC adopted a higher threshold standard this time than in the 1999 RAE, the institution-wide RAE index of Lingnan has surged from 38.85% in 1999 to 76.35% in the 2006 exercise. In spite of this excellent performance in research, Lingnan is not complacent. The faculty members are striving for even better achievements in research and teaching in the future. |
