Subsidy set for mainland path Hong Kong students who have been admitted to the first year of undergraduate programmes at mainland higher education institutions under a government scheme may submit applications for subsidies until August 29. In his policy address, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying announced the scheme to provide an alternative pathway for local students. Those who pass a means test will receive either a full subsidy of HK$15,000 or half subsidy of HK$7,500 per year. For more details, go to edb.gov.hk/musss14 Europe on the hoof About 25 students from the European Union Academic Programme (EUAP) Macau and EUAP-Hong Kong went on a study trip to Europe in June. They visited the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, to learn about European culture, history, politics and economics. Just between friends A selection of postcards jointly created by students from four drawing classes of Lingnan University's department of visual studies, and four artist-collaborators, has been shown at the Gallery Rostrum in Malmo, Sweden. The postcards were drawn by students in a project titled "Postcards between Friends". Some of the works are shown in Between: Collaborative haiku and picture postcards published in February. Local prof wins US award He Wenkai, an associate professor from the division of social science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, has won the American Sociological Association's 2014 Barrington Moore Book Award for comparative and historical sociology. He is the first scholar from a non-American university to have won the award. He's publication Paths Toward the Modern Fiscal State , which compares the history of modern public finance between England, Japan and China, is hailed as "a genuinely important piece of scholarship that has the potential to become a benchmark in the literature." It is now assigned reading for postgraduate students in several top American institutions including the University of Chicago.
