Taiwan education exhibition leaflets erase terms including “nationwide” and “overseas Chinese students”; participating institutions say they were told not to respond as national universities withdraw
台灣教育展單張塗去「全國」、「僑生」等字眼 參展院校稱被要求勿回應「國立」大學退展
The Hong Kong Taiwan Higher Education Exhibition resumed today (27th) at the Kowloon Bay International Trade & Exhibition Centre for two days, after a four-year hiatus. Taiwanese media reported last week that the Hong Kong organiser had required Taiwan’s public universities not to participate under the title “National”, resulting in 11 public universities withdrawing. InMedia visited the exhibition this afternoon, where staff from participating institutions said the person in charge had “hinted” that universities should not answer reporters’ questions about the withdrawal of the “National” universities. The words “nationwide”, “overseas Chinese students”, “overseas”, “national”, “domestic students” and “foreign” had also been covered over on leaflets distributed by private universities or in booklets distributed by the organiser. On a notice board, “Overseas Joint Admissions Committee” had been covered to read “Overseas Liaison Committee”.
闊別4年的「香港台灣高等教育展」今日（27日）起一連兩日在九龍灣國際展貿中心復辦，上周有台灣傳媒報道，因香港主辦方要求台灣的公立大學不能以「國立」頭銜參展，最終有11間公立大學退出。《獨媒》今午到場視察，有參展職員向記者表示，教育展負責人已向各院校「暗示」不能回答記者有關「國立」大學退展等問題，現場私立大學派發的單張或主辦方派發的小冊子上，「全國」、「僑生」、「海外」、「國家」、「本國生」、「外國」等字眼亦被塗去，告示板上的「海外聯招會」則被遮蓋成「海聯會」。