社會的急劇變化以及香港特別行政區的成立令高質素的人力資源需求激增。大學作為提供高等教育的主要基地，肩負著滿足二十一世紀社會需求的重要任務。可惜，隨著高等教育機會不斷增加，近年來大學畢業生的水平卻頻頻受到質疑。本文研究產生這些批評的原因並介紹一個名為「才能拓展計劃」的全面的領袖培訓計劃。這個簡稱「才展」的計劃是香港大學多個培訓優秀大學生迎接二千紀元新挑戰的項目之一。本文簡介「才展」的目的與建構並且總結一些經驗，擺出一些事實，並嘗試作一個尚未成熟的評價。
The rapid changes taking place in the society and the establishment of the Special Administrative Region have created huge demand in high quality human resources in Hong Kong. As major providers of higher education in Hong Kong, universities have the responsibilities to close the gap between the needs of the 21st century and the higher education. The standard of university graduates, however, has been severely criticised with the expansion of higher education. This article investigates the rationale behind such adverse comments and introduces a comprehensive leadership training programme named the Intensified Learning Opportunity Programme or ILOP in short. ILOP is one of the projects which the University of Hong Kong has devised to ensure that crops of outstanding graduates will be developed to meet the challenges of the new millennium. The vision and the construct of the programme as well as a pre-mature review and evaluation of the programme are also presented.
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在全球一體化下，各地人民要重新思考怎樣建構當地的公民教育，而在處理這課題時，了解本土青少年的看法是十分重要的。本文藉一個過千個中學生的調查結果，勾劃香港中學生在全球化環境下怎樣看待世界公民的特性、對環境課題的關注和香港的社會價值等三方面的取態。
In a globalized society, there is a need to reconstruct local civic education. But what is the youth's perception o fcivic values? This paper examines more than 1,000 secondary school pupils' perceptions of civic education in Hong Kong. The following areas are investigated: civic characteristics, environmental concerns, and the value of our society.
[Copyright of Journal of Youth Studies is the property of The Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups at http://yrc.hkfyg.org.hk/]