Panel to reform University of Hong Kong’s governance to meet students and staff in June
Long-awaited schedule to address issue revealed by chairman of university’s governing council Arthur Li Kwok-cheung
A special panel to be appointed by the University of Hong Kong to look into reforming the institution’s governance structure will start meeting students and staff members as soon as late June.
The long-awaited schedule was revealed by the chairman of the university’s governing council, Professor Arthur Li Kwok-cheung, who treated 10 of the university’s top students to dinner at a five-star hotel yesterday.
Outside the restaurant before the dinner, a group of student activists handed Li a petition letter, demanding a prompt review of the university’s governance structure, which they claimed, in the present form, would allow easy political interference by the government.
Li told the student activists the review panel would meet all stakeholders around the end of June.
He asked the students to submit a paper to the panel stating why they wanted to change the council’s composition and how they would like it to be formed.
“I have told the panel they can discuss anything openly,” said Li, promising that the panel would proceed with its work independently without interference.