Agriculture and aquaculture are a part of life, but a stable supply of food faces challenges from climate change and global competition. Southern Taiwan is an important area of agriculture and aquaculture. NCKU has participated in and contributed to agriculture and aquaculture research – including the cultivation and breeding of grouper fish, shrimp disease control and breeding, and orchid genome sequencing and disordering – not only to make outstanding achievements in academic research but also to link research with the industry and enhance industrial competitiveness.

The National Cheng Kung University College of Medicine – Taiwan’s leading research center for enterovirus, dengue fever, oncovirus, geriatric medicine and neurology – emphasises medical professionalism and humanism in its medical training.

Big data to change our world

Jian Pei is a Simon Fraser University computing science professor and one of the world’s leading researchers in data science, data mining and big data. Pei dedicates his work to finding patterns within datasets and developing algorithms to understand data from different angles, which can then be used to build business intelligence tools.

Additional mental health support, diverse course portfolios and smart admissions processes can all help improve retention and attainment for minority cohorts

Over the past decade the higher education sector has faced a number of challenges, writes Mark Hull, relationship director for higher education commercial banking at Lloyds Bank