12 Sept 2020聞庫（立場）#811
St. Paul’s Convent School Incorporates National Security Law into Ethics Classes, with More Than Five Hours of Lessons; Students Fear Pro-Government Message
港區國安法生效後，特首林鄭月娥、教育局局長楊潤雄表明要在學校開展國安法教育。《立場》獲悉，位於銅鑼灣的直資名校聖保祿學校中五、六學生，新學年在原有的倫理科中新增了四節有關「國安法」課程，暫定明年 3 月起上課，暫未知課程具體內容。有學生指出，校方常批評「政治不要進入校園」，但卻率先設立國安法課程，憂會傳遞有利政府的政治訊息。
After the National Security Law for Hong Kong took effect, Chief Executive Carrie Lam and Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung said national security education should be introduced in schools. Stand News learned that Form Five and Form Six students at the prestigious direct-subsidy St. Paul’s Convent School in Causeway Bay will have four lessons on the “National Security Law” added to their existing ethics subject in the new school year. The lessons are provisionally scheduled to begin in March next year, but their specific content is not yet known. Some students pointed out that the school often criticises the idea of “politics entering the campus”, but has taken the lead in introducing National Security Law lessons, and feared that they would convey a political message favourable to the government.
9 Sept 2020聞庫（立場）#804
Heung To student suspended for one week after protest slogan appears on online class avatar
傳統愛國學校香島中學一名學生使用網上授課軟件時，因個人用戶頭像上展示抗爭口號，遭學校停學處分。香島中學香港本土關注組日前在社交平台發帖，指一位同學於網上授課軟件 Microsoft Teams 的用戶頭像含有政治色彩，學校因此作出處分。《立場新聞》接觸到事主陳同學（化名），他透露有立即應校方要求移除圖片，校方仍以他的行為有損校譽為由，勒令他停學一星期。
A student at the patriotic Heung To Middle School was suspended after displaying a protest slogan as his personal avatar while using online teaching software. The Heung To Middle School Hong Kong Local Concern Group posted on social media recently that a student’s user avatar on Microsoft Teams contained political content, prompting the school to take disciplinary action. Stand News contacted the student, Chan (pseudonym), who said he immediately removed the image at the school’s request, but the school still ordered him to suspend his studies for one week on the grounds that his conduct had damaged the school’s reputation.
18 Aug 2020聞庫（立場）#771
Liberal Studies Textbooks Delete Content on Civil Disobedience, Rule of Law and Human Rights after De Facto Education Bureau Censorship
通識科近年受建制派狙擊。教育局去年推出通識教科書「專業諮詢服務」，被批評變相強制將課本送審。各出版社首按當局「諮詢」意見後首次作出的修訂版本昨日（17日）推出。《立場新聞》發現，通識科六大單元之一「今日香港」的各款教科書作出多處修訂，其中曾被《文匯報》大篇幅報道抨擊的《雅集新高中通識教育系列（第四版）》，將一整頁有關「公民抗命」的資料練習題刪走，當局要求刪除原因僅稱是「教學需要」。
Liberal Studies has come under attack from the pro-establishment camp in recent years. Last year, the Education Bureau introduced a “Professional Consultation Service” for Liberal Studies textbooks, which was criticised as effectively making it compulsory for textbooks to be submitted for vetting. The revised editions produced by publishers for the first time after following the authorities’ “consultation”意见 were released yesterday (17th). Stand News found that various Liberal Studies textbooks had made multiple revisions to the “Hong Kong Today” unit, one of the subject’s six major units. In the Ya Ji New Senior Secondary Liberal Studies Series (Fourth Edition), which had been extensively criticised in Wen Wei Po, an entire page of materials and exercises on “civil disobedience” was removed. The authorities’ stated reason for requiring its deletion was simply “teaching needs”.
17 Aug 2020立場新聞#769
Controversy over Cancellation of History Exam Question During Tenure; HKEAA Secretary General So Kwok-sang Will Not Renew Contract
香港考試及評核局宣佈，秘書長蘇國生在 2021 年 3 月完成任期後將不續約，考評局表示是蘇主動表示不續任。蘇國生任內發生史無前例試題風波，文憑試歷史科一條有關中日關係的題目被指「傷害國民感情」，考評局最終決定取消涉事題目，數千名考生受影響。
The Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority announced that Secretary General So Kwok-sang will not renew his contract after completing his term in March 2021, saying that So had taken the initiative to indicate that he would not continue in the post. During his tenure, an unprecedented controversy arose over an examination question. A question on Sino-Japanese relations in the History subject of the Diploma of Secondary Education Examination was accused of “hurting national feelings”. The HKEAA ultimately decided to cancel the question, affecting several thousand candidates.
15 Aug 2020獨媒#767
Nearly 4,000 Sign Academic Petition Urging Withdrawal of Dismissal Decisions Against Dai Yaoting and Shiu Ka-chun
社福界立法會議員兼浸大社工系講師邵家臻，以及佔中發起人兼港大法律系副教授戴耀廷，早前分別不獲浸大續約及被港大解僱。有教育界團體發起聯署行動，讉責港大和浸大，要求兩校撤回解僱決定。科大社會科學部副教授成名批評兩校做法違反程序公義，並斥特首擔任大學當然校監損害香港的學術自由。
Shiu Ka-chun, a Legislative Council member representing the social welfare sector and a lecturer in the Department of Social Work at Hong Kong Baptist University, and Dai Yaoting, an initiator of the Occupy Central movement and an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong, were earlier respectively denied contract renewals by Baptist University and dismissed by the University of Hong Kong. An education-sector group launched a petition condemning the two universities and calling on them to withdraw the dismissal decisions. Sing Ming, an associate professor in the Division of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, criticised the universities’ actions as violating procedural justice and denounced the Chief Executive’s role as ex officio chancellor of the universities as damaging Hong Kong’s academic freedom.
6 Aug 2020獨媒#743
CUHK Convocation annual general meeting postponed until next year; chairman “agrees” to one-year extension as alumni lawyer says move may be unlawful
中大校友自動成為成員的中大校友評議會，原定於7月18日舉行週年會員大會，改選將兼任校董的主席，以及兩個常委空缺。今年大會有民主派候選人參戰，惟會員大會一再延期，最新安排將延至明年1月9日。評議會常委更「決定」任期將於8月30日屆滿的現任主席延任一年，主席亦「同意」有關安排。中大校友莊耀洸律師指做法涉違反《香港中文大學條例》，或受法律挑戰。
The CUHK Convocation, whose members automatically include CUHK alumni, had originally scheduled its annual general meeting for July 18 to elect a chairman who would also serve as a member of the University Council, as well as fill two vacancies on the standing committee. Pan-democratic candidates are contesting this year’s election, but the meeting has been postponed repeatedly and is now scheduled for January 9 next year. The standing committee also “decided” to extend the term of the incumbent chairman, whose term was due to expire on August 30, by one year, and the chairman “agreed” to the arrangement. CUHK alumnus Yiu Kwong Chong, a lawyer, said the move may violate the Chinese University of Hong Kong Ordinance and could face a legal challenge.
2 Aug 2020聞庫（立場）#739
Lingnan rejects Ip Iam-chong’s tenure application; he says he will lose teaching post next year and urges attention to university’s “extraordinary” purge
曾多次撰文批評政府以至北京的嶺南大學文化研究系助理教授葉蔭聰在《明報》撰文，透露已收到大學通知，「實任」（substantiation）申請被否決，只獲一年合約，明年要離職。葉蔭聰指出，這幾年來，持續有敢於尖刻批評政治社會問題的「偏黃」學者遭大學拒絕續約，是有大學高層暗裏為政權「大掃除」，而港大法律學院副教授戴耀廷事件更反映，當局已於大學展開後國安法時代「超乎尋常」洗太平地行動。
Ip Iam-chong, an assistant professor in Lingnan University’s Department of Cultural Studies who has repeatedly written critically about the government and Beijing, said in an article in Ming Pao that he had been notified by the university that his application for “substantiation” had been rejected. He would receive only a one-year contract and would have to leave next year. Ip said that in recent years, “yellow” scholars who were willing to offer sharp criticism of political and social issues had repeatedly been refused contract renewals by universities. He said this reflected a covert “clean-up” of universities by senior university officials on behalf of the authorities, while the incident involving Benny Tai, an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law, further showed that the authorities had launched an “extraordinary” purge at universities in the post-national security law era.
1 Aug 2020獨媒#738
Primary School Teacher Allegedly Forced by Principal to Forge Documents, Required to Write Resignation Letter After Arrest
小學老師疑被校長逼造假文件 被捕後需寫提前辭職信
A primary school teacher was allegedly forced by the principal to forge documents and, after being arrested, was required to write a resignation letter in advance.
28 Jul 2020聞庫（立場）#730
HKU Council Dismisses Benny Tai; Liaison Office Calls It a Just Act That Punishes Evil and Upholds Good
香港大學法律系副教授戴耀廷去年因為「佔中案」被判監，港大展開紀律程序檢討戴耀廷去留，港大校委會今日（28 日）召開會議。消息人士指，校委會以 18 票比 2 票，通過開除戴耀廷的決定，意味著校委會推翻教務委員會早前建議保留教席的結論。中聯辦今日晚上表示，港大校委會的決定是「懲惡揚善、順應民心的正義之舉。」發言人又形容「正義或許會遲到，但絕不會缺席，戴耀廷被解僱完全是咎由自取。」
Benny Tai, an associate professor in the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law, was sentenced to imprisonment last year in the “Occupy Central case”. HKU launched disciplinary proceedings to review whether he should retain his post, and its Council met today (28th). Sources said the Council voted 18 to 2 to dismiss Tai, overturning an earlier recommendation by the Senate to retain his position. The Liaison Office said this evening that the Council’s decision was “a just act that punishes evil and upholds good, and conforms to the wishes of the people”. Its spokesperson said, “Justice may be late, but it will never be absent. Benny Tai’s dismissal was entirely brought upon himself.”
24 Jul 2020獨媒#7783
[Settling Accounts with Education] “‘Yellow’ teacher works as a volunteer journalist in spare time; school targets teacher and reviews CCTV for ‘evidence’
教師工餘任義務記者 學校針對 翻CCTV尋「罪證」
Teacher works as a volunteer journalist in spare time; school targets teacher and reviews CCTV for ‘evidence’.
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