APRIL 2016 - Issue 2 - Edition 57
Taylor's Culinology® Student Team Takes First Place
in Research Chefs Competition in the USA
The Winning Smile
After months of preparation, Spicy Linguine Roulade de Pollo was the winning food
product for a team of Taylor's students competing in the 2016 Research Chefs
Association (RCA) Student Culinology® Competition held in Denver.
A team from Taylor's University is now the only team from Asia to have ever been
named champions of the Research Chefs Association (RCA) Student
Culinology® Competition. Through this outstanding achievement by four
Bachelor of Science (Hons.) Culinology® students, Taylor’s University is also the
first foreign institution to have won the top Honours at the RCA Students
Competition. This prestigious international competition is not solely a culinary
competition, but a Food Product Development Competition and is a platform
for Culinology students to bring their culinary creativity and food science
experience to the table. This year's event was held in Denver, Colorado
(USA). The winning team, whose team members included Grace Tan, Jason
Wong, Alyssa Eng, and Nicholas Chan (team leader) were trained by Dr. Chong
Li Choo, Programme Director of Bachelor of Science (Hons.) Culinology®. The
team trained every day for the past 3-months, ensuring that their menu planning,
formulas and techniques were perfected. The training paid off, as the team
impressed the judges with their confidence and the high quality of the final
product.
Taylor’s University Culinology® team
winning entry, titled Spicy Linguine
Roulade de Pollo, was a nutritious and
balanced complete meal comprising
high fiber and protein pasta, chicken
roulade with prune and lentil filling,
accompanied by roasted vegetables.
The pasta was formulated with black
bean & lentil flour, served with a
vegetarian chilli inspired by chilli con
carne, retaining the rich south-western
flavours.
Each team had to develop a proposal for a concept which included both a
'gold-standard' recipe and also the corresponding commercial product with
manufacturing details. The top six finalist teams then competed on-site,
creating a fresh 'gold-standard' version of their products which had to matchup against the proposed commercialized and processed version. To find out
more about the unique Culinology® programme at Taylor's University click
here.
Next Generation Learning Spaces: Taylor's University’s
Initiatives Highlighted in China
Taylor's e-learning Academy was invited to Shanghai to speak about the university's initiatives
such as X-Space Classroom and the E-Quarium.
Lim Chee Leong, the Associate Director
of the e-Learning Academy (eLA)
at Taylor’s University was recently
invited to speak at the Next Generation
Learning Spaces 2016 conference in
Shanghai (China). Taylor’s University
has identified that learning spaces play
an important role in producing holistic
and work-ready graduates. During the
presentation in China, Chee Leong
focused on two initiatives embarked on
by the University to transform formal
and social learning spaces to
promote
collaborative
and
participative learning.
First, he discussed the launch of Project X-Space. This initiative saw a significant
investment in converting traditional classrooms into a technology-rich
collaborative classrooms, creating environments where academic staff and
students could work together. X-Space facilitates a diverse learning experience
in a highly collaborative and engaging manner. The technology used in this
collaborative classroom has been found to promote more positive attitudes
among students, a greater inclination to learn, led to an increase in student
achievement and also to motivate students to be more engaged.
Second, he discussed Project e-Quarium. This has seen the university convert
social learning spaces into collaborative learning environments. These new
spaces also apply interactive technologies supported with a communication
infrastructure. The overall focus has been on creating innovative learningspaces that are purposefully designed. Such spaces have been designed to
facilitate a diverse learning experience among our students, and encourage
students to learn in a highly collaborative and also engaging manner. Lim Chee
Leong commented that, "What we have done is invested in creating future
learning spaces to allow today’s diverse learners to learn collaboratively,
virtually and socially. The feedback from students has been very positive". To find
out more about the e-Learning Academy at Taylor's University click here.
G'Day, Vítejte, Bonjour, Welkom, Hwan-Yeong, Benvenuto to
Our International Exchange Students
The Taylor's University Global Ambassadors and staff welcomed a group of over forty
new semester-exchange students from an expanding range of partner universities in
Europe and Asia.
Taylor's staff and students gave a warm "Selamat Datang" to welcome 45exchange students arriving from Australia, The Netherlands, France, Germany,
Japan, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, South Korea, Austria, Finland, and the
Czech Republic amongst other countries. The exchange students will be
studying across our School of Communication, the School of Computing and IT,
the School of Education, Taylor’s Business School and Taylor’s School of
Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts. The students were initially welcomed at the
Taylor's Exchange Soirée (TES) with a showcase of Malaysian martial arts
performed by Kumpulan Silat Warisan Pusaka Bangsa as its opening act. TES
2016 was organised by Alina Zainal Abidin (Student Affairs) and her enthusiastic
team of student-leaders; Global Ambassadors (GAs). These exchange students
will be immersed in a culture-travel experience throughout their studies here
alongside the GAs in a programme called Exchange Engagement Programme
(EEP) which is run by the International Student Experience (ISE) team. Later in
the week they joined a 'Welcome Lunch' organised by Jayvien Lau and the
team from Global Mobility to connect these students with key staff from the
various schools within the university. Jayvien Lau (Head, Global Mobility) said
that "it was wonderful to welcome another group of exchange students to TU,
and let's remember that every one of these students we host opens up a place
for a Taylor's student overseas". Professor Perry Hobson (PVC-Global
Engagement) added that, "we have substantially grown the number of
exchange partners we have over the last 5-years, and we are still actively
looking to further expand the number of exchange partners and the range of
countries we can offer to our own students". The university also has an active
International Student Council to involve these students in activities once they
are on-campus. To find out more about the Global Mobility options at Taylor's
University click here.
How Will Universities Survive the MOOC Revolution?
"Higher education is more monocultural than ever before... As any botanist
knows, a monoculture is highly susceptible to a single pathogen... A great
shakeout is under way, and MOOCs are the logical outgrowth of this push for
interchangeable educational delivery. Curricula, faculty, and students are
overwhelmingly indistinct, and MOOCs are simply the cheapest way to combine
those elements in our economically constrained times.” So what is a college or
university to do? Dig deep, look at real data, be brutally honest, uncover the
sweet spot and execute well. For the full story read the University World News
Trump University Fraud Case to Go Ahead in USA, Court Decides
About seven years ago Robert Guillo, 76, and his son, Alexander, walked into a
Manhattan hotel and followed signs that read, "This way to success. This way to
Trump University." By the end of the day, he was sold. He put US$34,995 on his
American Express card to join the Trump Gold Elite Program. The fraud
lawsuit resurfaced this week, when a state appeals court unanimously denied a
bid by Trump, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, to
throw out the litigation. For the full story from the Chronicle of Higher Education
see the University World News
“World Class” Student Videos Produced to Encourage Mobility
Rehabilitating brain injury patients during a physiotherapy placement in
Cambodia, living in “a tiny shoebox near Montmartre” and visiting a dog café
in Korea – these were some of the experiences showcased in the submissions to
the World Class Show & Tell short video competition that aimed to promote
study abroad to students in Australia. The entries, which have been published
online, aim to target Australian students considering study abroad, as part of the
federal government’s World Class strategy to promote outbound student
mobility. For the full story read The PIE News.
University of Sydney Proposes to Offer Only 20 Degrees and to Increase
Study Mobility to 50%
The University of Sydney will slash up to 100 degrees from its portfolio and triple
its annual investment in research to $900 million over six years, the university's
Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence has revealed. Dr Spence said that the
university will end up with about 20 degrees across streamlined arts and social
sciences, business, engineering, science, health, and medicine faculties and
the schools of law, architecture and the conservatorium of music. Dr Spence
said the 166-year-old university will increase the number of Sydney University
students going on exchange overseas from 19 per cent to 50 per cent by 2020.
To read the full story go to the Sydney Morning Herald