Hong Kong equality supremo admits he didn’t declare outside work while at Lingnan University
The other institution, in the Philippines, was at the centre of a ‘diploma factory’ scandal last year
The academic-turned-equality watchdog chief Professor Alfred Chan Cheung-ming has conceded he did not declare his service at a Philippines university when he was teaching at Lingnan University.
The new Equal Opportunities Commission chairman, who only took up the new post on Monday, was forced to apologise as his integrity was questioned after the media exposed a possible conflict of interest, in that he supervised a non-Lingnan student for her doctoral thesis at Tarlac State University in the Philippines.
The Apple Daily reported on Monday that Professor Chan, who was chair professor of social gerontology at Lingnan before joining the commission, had failed to report to his employer about his service for Tarlac State University.
A Lingnan University spokesman said on Monday that the university “did not receive any application from [Professor Chan] concerning commitment in outside practice related to Tarlac State University in the Philippines”.