12 Oct 2023獨媒#8482
Report says DSE English speaking exam may move online; HKEAA: study shows it is broadly feasible, with no implementation timetable
網上有指考評局擬將中學文憑試英文科口試轉為網上應試，考評局回覆《獨媒》查詢時指，自2021年起邀請學校進行可行性研究，結果顯示「大致可行」，參與研究的師生亦反應正面，但就強調暫無實施時間表，未來會繼續諮詢不同持份者，承諾有關改動不會影響中學文憑試的質素與公平。
Online reports have claimed that the HKEAA plans to move the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education Examination English speaking exam online. In response to an enquiry from The Independent Media, the HKEAA said it had invited schools to conduct a feasibility study since 2021. The results showed that the arrangement was “broadly feasible”, and participating teachers and students also responded positively. It stressed, however, that there is currently no implementation timetable. It will continue to consult different stakeholders and pledged that the changes would not affect the quality or fairness of the DSE.
9 Oct 2023明報#8462
Nobel Laureate Backs Xiang Zhang, Says Renewed Council Probe Not in Hong Kong’s Interests
香港大學校務委員會開會討論針對校長張翔的匿名投訴前夕，兩名由張翔力邀加入港大的知名學者已經或將會致函校委會，開腔支持張翔。2016年諾貝爾化學獎得主、港大化學系講座教授Fraser Stoddart接受訪問時，呼籲校委會應勿理會匿名指控，形容若校委會再啟動調查是「浪費時間」及令人傷感，也不符合大學及香港利益，反問：「為何容讓瑣碎政治破壞大學？」他提醒，港大如果要吸引頂級學者，就要避免「有毒文化」，及支持大學管理層。
Ahead of the University of Hong Kong Council meeting to discuss anonymous complaints against President Xiang Zhang, two prominent scholars whom Zhang invited to join HKU have either written or will write to the Council in support of him. Fraser Stoddart, the 2016 Nobel laureate in chemistry and Chair Professor in HKU’s Department of Chemistry, told the media that the Council should ignore the anonymous allegations. He described any renewed investigation as a “waste of time” and saddening, saying it would not be in the interests of the university or Hong Kong. He asked: “Why allow petty politics to damage the university?” He cautioned that if HKU wants to attract top scholars, it must avoid a “toxic culture” and support the university’s management.
9 Oct 2023獨媒#8464
HKU Council sets up task force to investigate complaints involving Xiang Zhang; Wong Pui-si: Action only after truth is established
港大校長張翔遭匿名投訴，被指涉嫌多宗管理不當事件。港大校委會今日下午舉行特別會議處理，會後宣布成立5人調查專責小組，當中3人為校委會成員，其餘2人會由校委會委任非校委會成員加入，預計12星期內提交報告。校委會主席王沛詩強調沒有任何假定，「校長仲係我哋嘅校長」，港大會上下一心，直至找出事實真相才會採取行動。
HKU President Xiang Zhang has faced anonymous complaints alleging multiple incidents of mismanagement. The HKU Council held a special meeting this afternoon to address the matter and announced afterwards that it had established a five-member investigation task force. Three members are from the Council, while the other two will be non-Council members appointed by the Council. The task force is expected to submit its report within 12 weeks. Council Chair Wong Pui-si stressed that there were no assumptions, saying, “The president is still our president.” She said HKU would stand united until the facts were established, and would only take action after the truth had been found.
4 Oct 2023獨媒#8441
10 HKU Council Members Issue Statement Expressing Disappointment and Regret Over University’s “Laissez-faire” Handling of Complaints Against President
港大校長張翔近日接連被指控多宗管治問題，10名港大校董會成員昨發公開聲明，指近日所有聲音皆透過媒體報導，而作為港大最高管治架構的校委會，至今並無作正式公布回應，對校方「放任」處理感失望和遺憾。聲明稱為保港大聲譽，籲大學管治機構包括校委會和校長辦公室盡快採取行動，包括解決投訴事項的保密要求，公開相關文件，並按機制處理投訴包括但不限於成立獨立調查委員會。
Ten members of the University of Hong Kong Council issued a public statement yesterday, saying that Xiang Zhang, the HKU president, had recently been accused of multiple governance problems. They said all the views expressed in recent days had been conveyed through media reports, while the Council, HKU’s highest governing body, had so far made no formal public response. They expressed disappointment and regret over the university’s “laissez-faire” handling of the matter. To protect HKU’s reputation, the statement urged the university’s governing bodies, including the Council and the President’s Office, to take action as soon as possible, including addressing the confidentiality requirements concerning the complaints, making the relevant documents public, and handling the complaints in accordance with established procedures, including but not limited to establishing an independent investigation committee.
4 Oct 2023獨媒#8442
Several Universities Tighten Orientation Camp Arrangements; Schools to Approve Plans, EdUHK to Deploy Staff for On-site Supervision
港大和教大的迎新營活動先後爆出風化案，合計兩人被捕。教育局及大學教育資助委員會昨向立法會提供文件，附上8間資助大學及3間自資大學監察迎新營的現行政策及指引。發生風化案的港大，大致維持既有政策，包括學生活動組織者須參加加強「文明守禮行為、處理性騷擾」的培訓。其餘多間大學均收緊迎新營安排，例如加入校方審批迎新活動計劃書。教大則推出多項新措施，包括指派主管、領導者和觀察員來監督和報告活動進展，強制提交活動報告和出席名單。
The University of Hong Kong and the Education University of Hong Kong have each seen indecency cases emerge during orientation camp activities, with two people arrested in total. The Education Bureau and the University Grants Committee provided the Legislative Council with documents yesterday detailing the existing policies and guidelines of eight publicly funded universities and three self-financing universities for monitoring orientation camps. HKU, where an indecency case occurred, is broadly retaining its existing policies, including requiring student activity organisers to attend training on “civilised and courteous conduct and handling sexual harassment”. Several other universities have tightened their orientation camp arrangements, including requiring university approval of orientation activity proposals. EdUHK has introduced various new measures, including assigning supervisors, leaders and observers to monitor activities on site and report on their progress, and requiring the submission of activity reports and attendance lists.
2 Oct 2023HK01#8433
HKU Council Holds Emergency Meeting to Discuss Complaints Against Zhang Xiang Over Scholarship and Headhunter Appointments
《香港01》從多個獨立消息渠道獲悉，港大校務委員會周二（10月3日）罕有加開特別會議，討論對校長張翔的投訴，包括涉及豁免招標聘用美國獵頭公司招聘副校長及醫學院院長；一筆來自內地企業的獎學金款項，一度要求轉到校長辦公室控制的賬戶；以及此前曝光豁免招標以205萬元購買校長座駕。
港大校務委員會上周二（9月25日）已召開恆常會議，一周後加會極不尋常。據悉張翔向校委會秘書處發律師信，要求押後召開會議，令開會再添變數。
HK01 learned from multiple independent sources that the University of Hong Kong Council unusually held an additional special meeting on Tuesday (October 3) to discuss complaints against HKU President Zhang Xiang. The complaints included the exemption from a tender process to hire a US headhunting firm to recruit a vice-president and the dean of the Faculty of Medicine; a scholarship payment from a mainland company that was at one point requested to be transferred to an account controlled by the President’s Office; and the previously reported exemption from a tender process to purchase the president’s car for 2.05 million.
The HKU Council held its regular meeting last Tuesday (September 25), making the additional meeting one week later highly unusual. Zhang Xiang was reportedly issued a lawyer’s letter to the Council Secretariat requesting that the meeting be postponed, adding further uncertainty over whether it would take place.
28 Sept 2023獨媒#8416
Hong Kong Baptist University Students Hold Yellow-Ribbon Silent Vigil for Umbrella Movement’s Ninth Anniversary; Staff Remove Them, Citing Disciplinary Procedures
今日是雨傘運動爆發九周年。在浸會大學，有學生在校園內「默站」，身上貼有多條黃絲帶，以及寫上「學站唔畀我哋派，你哋願意拎嗎？」、「Freedom is NOT Free. People sacrifice & paid」的紙張。惟他們默站不久，即有校方人員到場把他們帶走。
Today marks the ninth anniversary of the outbreak of the Umbrella Movement. At Hong Kong Baptist University, students held a silent vigil on campus, wearing multiple yellow ribbons and displaying sheets of paper bearing the messages “The school won’t let us hand them out; are you willing to take one?” and “Freedom is NOT Free. People sacrifice & paid”. Shortly after they began, university staff arrived and took them away, saying that disciplinary procedures would be initiated.
16 Sept 2023獨媒#8373
Mainland students at CUHK dissatisfied with ‘shared ranking’ with Shenzhen campus; may put up posters and hold placards to seek classmates’ attention
香港中文大學目前設有中大（深圳）分校，有於香港中大的內地生發現，深圳分校的簡介書與香港中大「共享」QS（國際高等教育信息機構）世界大學排名（第39位），引起不滿。有就讀香港中大的內地生組成關注組，成員向《獨媒》表示，今年8月底再翻查QS世界大學排名網站，中大的「校園」欄目新增深圳分校。關注組代表要求兩校分開排名、並公開數據證明屬同一學術標準，個人而言則或走出線上模式，以海報、舉牌等形式，爭取同學關注。
The Chinese University of Hong Kong currently has a Shenzhen campus. Some mainland students studying at CUHK in Hong Kong discovered that the Shenzhen campus’s brochure “shares” CUHK’s QS World University Ranking—39th—with the Hong Kong university, prompting dissatisfaction. Mainland students studying at CUHK formed a concern group. Members told InMediaHK that when they checked the QS World University Rankings website again in late August this year, the Shenzhen campus had been newly added under CUHK’s “campuses” section. Representatives of the group demanded that the two universities be ranked separately and that data be made public to prove that they operate according to the same academic standards. Individually, they said they might move beyond online action and use posters, placards and other forms to draw their classmates’ attention.
11 Sept 2023集誌社#8352
Two Years After PTU Dissolution (1) | Education Federation Opens Teachers’ Supermarket and Teams Up with Peter Lam on Online Shopping to Attract Customers
擁有 48 年歷史，曾是香港最大工會的香港教育專業人員協會（教協），在兩年前今日（ 11 日）通過解散，至今仍在處理解散程序。教協去後，親建制的教育工作者聯會（教聯會）過去兩年急速擴張，辦超市、更伙同商人林建岳搞網購；教協解散翌日，教聯會即成立新的「教育工作者工會」（教工會）。
這些被視為取代教協的舉措，兩年的KPI如何？教聯會兩年間會員人數增逾萬人；教工會成立了兩年，現只有 150 名會員。教聯會與教工會合共近六萬名會員，仍未及教協近十萬名會員。
The Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union (PTU), which had a 48-year history and was once Hong Kong’s largest trade union, passed a resolution to dissolve two years ago today (11th) and is still handling the dissolution procedures. In the two years since the PTU’s departure, the pro-establishment Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers (FEW) has expanded rapidly, opening a supermarket and teaming up with businessman Peter Lam on online shopping. The day after the PTU’s dissolution, the FEW established a new Education Workers’ Union.
How have these measures, which have been viewed as replacing the PTU, performed against their targets over the past two years? The FEW’s membership increased by more than 10,000 over the two-year period, while the Education Workers’ Union, established two years ago, now has only 150 members. The FEW and the Education Workers’ Union have nearly 60,000 members combined, still fewer than the PTU’s nearly 100,000 members.
9 Sept 2023港大學苑#8345
HKU Students’ Union official Instagram account suspected of being hacked; last official update was before Council mourning-motion controversy
香港大學學生會官方 Instagram （@hkusu_official）帳戶今（9月9日）疑被盜用，現被改名作 @hayal.mhmd_，頭像被改成一名男子的生活照，該帳戶亦在今日稍早的帖文中發佈該照片。該帳戶原有學生會帖文已被全部刪除。
The official Instagram account of the University of Hong Kong Students’ Union (@hkusu_official) was suspected of being hacked today (September 9). It has been renamed @hayal.mhmd_, and its profile picture changed to a lifestyle photograph of a man. The account also posted the photograph earlier today. All of the account’s original Students’ Union posts have been deleted.
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