The University of Macau aims to globalise and diversify its growing campus

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With financial strength, appropriate strategies, effective implementation of such strategies, and strong policies for recruiting, retaining and developing staff, the University of Macau (UMacau) can go far and will be able to compete in a globalised environment, according to Professor Dahsuan Feng, Director of the Global Affairs and Special Advisor to the Rector.

Trained as a physicist with years of experience working at US universities and the US government leading science and technology projects, Professor Feng, as an academic strategist, is on a mission to raise the University’s global visibility and standing.

“The current student demographics tell us that we need to diversify our student mix in our undergraduate and graduate programmes and recruit the best global students,” Professor Feng says.

Currently 80 per cent of the student population are local Macau residents. “We don’t do it blindly. We hope to bring in students with different cultures and different ways of thinking to create an impact, and broaden the intellectual bandwidth of our local students,” he explains.

One group being targeted is ethnic Chinese students in Malaysia who are proficient in English, Chinese and Malay, who perform well in technology and science, and understand Chinese, English and Malay cultures.