LECTURERS at Hongkong's teacher training colleges will support their students when they skip classes today to protest against the Government's proposals to change entry requirements.
The 300 members of the Association of Lecturers at Colleges of Education agree with the students that the proposed changes would lower standards.
The president of the association, Mr Lam Shu-wing, said that although they would continue working today, they agreed with the class boycott as the students' way of expressing their dissatisfaction about the proposals.
These include allowing students to enter the colleges with just 11 points, or Grade E in six different Hongkong Certificate of Education Examination subjects over an unspecified time, rather than in one sitting.
Mr Lam criticised the Government for failing to provide guidance about how to maintain teacher-training quality if the entry requirements were lowered.
''This is to shift the responsibility to maintain teacher quality to us,'' Mr Lam said.