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Overseas Partnership and Exchange Programmes
Since our school was founded, we have been zealously reaching out from our own locale: promoting the knowledge of both Chinese and Western academia, encouraging our students, pastors and others to embrace pluralistic traditions, developing a globalistic horizon, devoting ourselves to interact with both the academic institutions of Mainland China and other countries, and establishing platforms for overseas exchange.
In the earlier days, our school has built close ties (or has partnership programmes) with some theological institutions in South East Asia such as Trinity Theological College, Singapore and also Tainan Theological College and Seminary. Moreover, as a member of ATESEA, we pro-actively cooperate with 104 theological institutions from 16 countries/regions all over Asia. Since 1998, our school has begun to share our teaching resources with Myanmar's seminaries, through cooperation with Association for Theological Education in Myanmar (ATEM) and Methodist Theological College (in cooperation with The Methodist Church, Great Britain) to develop and train the teachers there. In the last decade, our school has also taken a further step to strengthen our cooperation with other theological institutions in the west. For example, from 1999 to 2006, we began to cooperate with the Westminster College, Oxford to offer distance learning programme that lead to the award of BTh (Oxon). After the Westminster College joined the Oxford Brookes University, in addition to the Oxon programme, the collaboration offered also a similar programme that lead to BA (Hon) in Theology. We successfully conducted immersion courses for Andover Newton Theological School in 2004 and Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley in 2007. We are now making plans to conduct the same one for Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in January 2009. From 2010, our school has launched an exchange programme with Yale Divinity School.
Below are the exchange programmes between our school and other institutions in Mainland China and abroad which we are currently committed to:
| Countries |
Institutions |
Programmes for exchange /
Plans for cooperation
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| The United States |
Yale Divinity School |
Every year, each party may send students for exchange for one semester or one year. Faculty exchange is also possible. |
| Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley |
Our school has joined ¡§GTU Partnerships in Transforming Theological Education in Asia, Oceania, and North America¡¨. This partnership exceeds more than 10 institutions from the aforementioned regions. Through regular academic meetings, theological educational workshops, publication plans, sharing of teaching resources, etc., the institutions from these three regions renew and exchange insights on theological education, so that theological education will not only meet the needs of its locality and region but globally as well. |
| United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia |
Every year our school provides accommodation and research resources for scholars from GTU and Asian academic institutions who are enrolled in the Institute for Advanced Study in Asian Cultures and Theology (IASACT) programme, promoting exchange between these scholars and our school as well as other scholars in Hong Kong. |
| Switerland |
University of Zurich |
1. To encourage visits and exchange by faculty and doctoral students for the purpose of engaging in research and educational activities;
2. To arrange possible joint conferences, seminars, or symposia for academic exchange; and
3. To develop possible collaborative research projects on topics of mutual interests and to promote other academic activities which will enhance the abovementioned goals |
| Korea |
Methodist Theological University |
1. Exchange of faculty members
2. Joint research activities and publications
3. Accommodation privilege for visiting scholars
4. Exchange of research materials and other information
5. Exchange programmes for students registered in each school
6. Exchange of publications |
| Mainland China |
Beijing University
(Peking University) |
1. The Graduate School of Beijing University and Graduate School of Chinese University have agreed to cooperate in educating the doctorate students recommended by Beijing University. In particular, our school is in-charge of the area of Christian Studies. Candidates can study a year in Beijing University, followed by 3 semesters to 2 academic years in our school. Candidates must fulfill the requirements of both Beijing University and Chinese University: submitting their doctorate thesis and thereafter oral defense from both institutions.
2. The Religion Department of Beijing University and the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies of Chinese University has agreed to hold symposiums biannually - to be held in Beijing and Hong Kong. |
| Henan University |
Henan University can send a doctorate exchange student in Christian Studies to our school every year for one or two semesters. |
| The Research Centre for East-West Cultural Exchanges, Central China Normal University (Wuhan) |
Every year, our school will co-organise the ¡§History of Christianity in China Young Scholar Symposim¡¨ with The Research Centre for East-West Cultural Exchanges, Central China Normal University. |
| Jinan University (Guangzhou) |
Jinan University can send a doctorate exchange student in Christian Religion to our school every year for one or two semesters. |
| Nankai University (Tienjin) |
The Department of Chinese Language of Nankai University may select a doctorate student in biblical studies to do research and study in our school for one to two semesters. Our school can sponsor the student's tuition fees, accommodation fees as well as living expenses in Hong Kong. |
| Centre for Christian Studies of Sichuan University |
1. Establish good relationships to do research in Christianity and provide convenience for visiting scholars.
2. Every year, Centre for Christian Studies of Sichuan University selects potential students to study in our MA programme, while we reserve at least 2 spaces for their students to participate in our Summer Intensive Programme.
3. Collaborate efforts to conduct meetings, developing cooperative research (including compositions, translations, publication, etc.). |
| Wuhan University |
1. The Department of Religion in Wuhan University sends one exchange student per academic year for one or two semesters. Our school provides full sponsorship for the students tuition fees, accommodation fees and living expenses in Hong Kong.
2. Our school may provide 3 spaces each year in our MACS programme for graduates from Wuhan University's bachelor or master's degree. They shall all major in biblical studies, with at least 2 in New Testament studies. Our school sponsors the tuition fees, accommodation fees and living expenses in Hong Kong for the three students. If they should attain outstanding results in their studies, they can apply for higher degrees either to continue studies in our school or at Wuhan University.
3. In the areas of biblical studies and Christian theology, there are teacher exchanges: teachers from both institutions may be invited to teach, lecture, research and publish as well as other collaborative works. |
| China Christian Council and seminaries |
1. Our school and the China Christian Council conducts indefinite exchange programmes, as well as sponsoring teachers in development from other theological institutions.
2. Every year, our school organizes a group of teachers and students to visit the churches and theological institutions in mainland China.
3. Our school is also committed to the Guangzhou Christian Council to send our students for 8 weeks of internship during the summer. |
| Shantou University |
Our school coorperates with Shantou University to organize academic conferences, lectures, courses, exchange visits, etc, to promote researches on Christianity in Swatow Community and to promote life education. |
Updated at: 30/3/2013
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