Distance Online Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Delivery of UK Top-Up Degree Programs in Hong Kong From the Students' Perspectives

School For Higher And Professional Education (Shape)

School for Higher and Professional Education (SHAPE) in Hong Kong provides collaborative top-up degree programmes. All programmes are collaborated with well-known international universities. At SHAPE, students directly transit from higher diploma to the final year of degree programmes, which are career-oriented across a variety of professional areas, including business, childcare, and community services, design, engineering, health and life sciences, hospitality, tourism, and leisure, and information technology. They study locally but awarded a degree by the universities globally such as in the United Kingdom, Australia and Mainland China. To facilitate students with an international exposure and experience, the collaborative programmes are co-taught by overseas and local teaching staff. The overseas lecturers visit Hong Kong every semester and deliver their intensive classes in a face-to-face mode.