Annual Report 1993-94

16 pressure on the teaching facilities and triggered the birth of new administrative measures to meet the challenge. For instance, starting 1939-94, all full-time undergraduate course examinations were centrally timetabled to ensure orderly allocation of examination venues, and to maximize the use of such venues during examination period whilst assuring a reasonably scattered examination timetable for the majority of students. Steps were taken to identify one more large examination hall in 1994-95 w i th a view to enlarging centrally administered examination facilities. Another major development was an overall review and streamlining of academic organization. The University decided to institute the Department as the basic academic unit to replace the Board of Studies. The hitherto dichotomous offices of Board Chairman and Department Chairman would be merged into one from 1994-95. Membership of the future Board of Department was rationalized, and duties and functions of the Department Chairman and Board of Department were clearly redefined. A l l these helped set the ground for the full implementation of a decentralized operation mode and provide greater flexibility for the individual departments. 學術交流 Academic Exchange 在學術交流方面，大學加強了與海外卓越學術中心之聯繫，通過 學系、學院、書院或大學各不同層面的多方面的合作安排，中大師生 有更多機會到外地學術機構作較長期的進修，教學或從事研究。外國 學生和學者也獲安排參與交流計劃，給中大校園增添了活力，並以他 們的學術熱忱和專長豐富了大學的教研活動。 本年度，從世界各地到中大修讀各種課程之交換學生有九十名， 本校亦有逾八十名學生到各地大學進修，包括日本、韓國、英國、加拿大及美國。大學 於本年度與五所學術機構訂立新的交流計劃，使現行學生交流計劃數目增至三十四項。 一如以往，教師之交流通過英國文化協會和東南亞高等學府協會安排。此外，大學 又直接與海外學府建立了新聯繫，開展短期交換計劃。該等學府包括密西根州立大學、 夏威夷大學，以及經 ASIANetwork 和中西聯合學院聯繫之一些美國人文學科學院。 中大與國內之學術聯繫亦不斷增強。年間接待了不下八十個來自有合作協議院校的 高層代表團，包括廣東科技委員會、四川省教育委員會、南京大學、北京醫科大學、淸 華大學等。本校與國內主要大學及研究中心共簽下五十多項合作協議；而於九三至九四 年內，又與雲南大學、四川聯合大學和重慶大學簽訂了新交流協議。國內前來中大修讀 研究課程之研究生亦有顯著增加。 爲擴闊師生之視野，使其事業及學術發展有更多的選擇，本校將繼續致力加強現有 與外地學術機構的合作關係及建立更多新的聯繋。 學生交換人數 Number of Exchange Students 年度 Year 往訪學生人數 No. of Outgoing Students 到訪學生人數 No. of Incoming Students 1992-93 67 85 1993-94 84 90