Technology provides ‘golden opportunity’ for higher education reform

Philanthropist and entrepreneur Charles Chen Yidan says today’s education systems are ‘not suited to tomorrow’s society’

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June 1, 2017

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Charles Chen Yidan (left) with Hong Kong Polytechnic University president Timothy Tong

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