Some suggest a good outsider is ideal replacement for retiring Professor Lam
The University of Hong Kong might be better off recruiting from overseas to replace the medical faculty dean, Lam Shiu-kum, who resigned last week citing personal reasons, said some faculty members.
Some professors said the deanship should also return to being an elective post, which had been a long-held tradition until 2003 when the position became an appointed one in the middle of Professor Lam's deanship.
Professor Lam was elected as dean in 2001.
While saying it was business as usual at the faculty, several said there was frustration.
A staff meeting is expected today - the university's Foundation Day - to be presided over by acting dean Raymond Liang Hin-suen.
It is believed Professor Liang, who is also associate dean and has in the past been acting dean when Professor Lam was on leave, would try to boost morale.
