University of Hong Kong vice-chancellor defends decision not to release governance report
Peter Mathieson thinks governing council needs time to decide what to do with contentious report and which suggestions to implement
The University of Hong Kong’s outgoing vice-chancellor has defended the decision not to release a report reviewing the chief executive’s role in university affairs.
The city’s leader is chancellor of all eight publicly funded universities – posts inherited from British colonial rule.
A new working group made up of members of the council is looking at the report’s suggestions, amid criticism from students, alumni and staff that the university is dragging its feet on the issue.
HKU vice-chancellor Peter Mathieson said at an annual soccer match between HKU and host Chinese University that the report had “parts that are very straightforward and other parts that are not so straightforward”, with some elements requiring further debate.