The Faculty of Finance of the City University of Macau held the Quality Assurance Committee meeting for the 2020/2021 academic year on 20 July 2022. The meeting was conducted online due to the pandemic.
Dean Adrian Cheung of the Faculty of Finance extended his heartfelt thanks to the Committee members for their support and assistance in the past academic year. He also reported on the Faculty’s management of quality assurance, including the recruitment of academic staff, the development of new programs and the teaching achievements in the past academic year. Associate Dean Eva Khong of the Faculty of Finance then talked about a series of activities conducted in the past academic year to enhance teaching quality, including academic forums, seminars, workshops, exchanges and visits, as well as student development programs jointly organized by the Faculty and the industry, all of which were aimed at enabling students to develop in a more diversified way. After that, Associate Professor Wu Zefu and Assistant Professor Lin Deqin, Course Coordinators of the Faculty of Finance, gave a detailed presentation on the teaching and program quality assurance of the Faculty’s doctoral, master’s and bachelor’s degree programs.
Committee members expressed their views on how to improve teaching quality:
Dr Vincent Huen Wai Kei, Senior Treasurer of SJM Holdings Limited, recognized the teaching effectiveness of the Faculty of Finance, and suggested to focus on the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to cultivate economic and financial talents. It is believed that the combination of science, technology and finance should be used to create courses with special characteristics or features, and he also suggested to take rural revitalization as the scope of consideration.
In view of the vigorous development of the Faculty, Professor Desmond Yuen Chun Yip of the University of Macau recommended to recruit more teachers; in order to improve the practical ability of students, he proposed to set up internship courses, which students may earn credits for, so that students can gain practical experience during their studies.
Professor Jun Xie of the South China University of Technology recommended that the Faculty may add data analysis courses and databases at different levels to help students conduct research and thesis writing during their studies.
PhD student representative, Xueying Zou, expressed satisfaction with the studies in the Faculty of Finance, especially for the course curriculum. The subject of the course is based on various cutting-edge directions in the Greater Bay Area and China. She suggested the Faculty to expand to cooperate with more mainland cooperative enterprises in the future, which brings industry frontiers closer to the practice and development direction of students.
Master’s student representative, Jiachun Li, was satisfied and benefited from the on-site visit activities arranged by the Faculty, and suggested to arrange targeted offline internships from different industries, so that students who choose to work with a particular industry after graduation can quickly adapt to the social environment and work rhythm of that industry.
Undergraduate student representative, Zhuolin Chen, stated that during his studies in the Faculty of Finance, he has witnessed the rapid development of the Faculty and formed a good academic quality in financial and economic research through innovative courses and teaching models. He hoped that the Faculty will hold more competitions in finance or investment in the future to increase students’ interest in learning.
The Faculty of Finance’s Quality Assurance Committee for the 2021/2022 academic year is composed of the following members: Deputy General Manager of the Financial Markets Department of the Bank of China Macau Branch, Li Qiang; Senior Treasurer of SJM Holdings Limited, Dr Vincent Huen Wai Kei; Professor of the South China University of Technology, Jun Xie; Professor of the University of Macau, Desmond Yuen Chun Yip; PhD student representative, Xueying Zou; Master’s student representative, Jiachun Li; and undergraduate student representative, Zhuolin Chen.
Dean Cheung concluded the meeting by mentioning that the Faculty of Finance collected views and suggestions from industry experts, experts from academia and student representatives at the annual meetings of the Program Quality Assurance Committee to keep up its efforts for the betterment of quality assurance management of the Faculty and its teaching programs. He thanked the experts, teachers and students for their support of the Faculty. The Faculty would keep record of the suggestions put forward in the meeting and take them into consideration seriously.