https://www.scmp.com/rss/326325/feed In January 2018, some 30 students protesting their results on a Baptist University exemption test for a Mandarin language course drew criticism for an eight-hour stand-off with staff members of the school's Language Centre. The university president later suspended two undergraduates, including the student union leader, for their conduct. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Baptist University’s outgoing president, Roland Chin Tai-hong, believes it is not too late for Hong Kong to set up a conciliation commission to foster conversation between different camps and heal a society ripped apart by last year’s anti-government protests. Although the city appeared calmer on the surface now, he said, the root of the problems had not been dealt with and Hong Kong remained divided and filled with unhappiness. Chin, 68, also shared his vision on higher education in an... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3114616/retiring-after-hong-kong-protest-turmoil-baptist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3114616/retiring-after-hong-kong-protest-turmoil-baptist?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 20 Dec 2020 23:00:16 +0000 The Chinese University of Hong Kong has set up a relief fund to create about a hundred jobs for students as part of its plans to mitigate the impact of the anti-government protests and the Covid-19 pandemic, as its head told the Post that donations to universities were expected to decline. At the Post’s annual China Conference on Friday, Chinese University vice-chancellor and president Rocky Tuan said he hoped the fund would enhance students’ employment outlook during the current tough times. On... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3084665/hong-kong-universities-help-create-jobs-students-amid?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3084665/hong-kong-universities-help-create-jobs-students-amid?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 May 2020 14:51:50 +0000 Two Hong Kong Baptist University’s security guards who were accused of turning a blind eye to riot police entering the campus without permission have been suspended, according to the varsity management. But in a heated exchange with more than 200 students on Tuesday, a management representative refused to accede to their demand to lay off the two guards immediately, insisting they deserved a chance to appeal in a review hearing. The student union of the institution staged a rally in protest... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3032056/two-hong-kong-baptist-university-security-guards-suspended?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3032056/two-hong-kong-baptist-university-security-guards-suspended?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:20:24 +0000 Over the past weeks, multiple video clips have gone viral showing a small band of university students mouthing profanities at their professors, restraining their movements and deliberately damaging university property. These students, whatever their cause, show no respect for their professors and have destroyed facilities at the very universities at which they receive their education. They should be reprimanded, suspended or even expelled in accordance with university regulations. It defeats... https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3028163/why-should-hong-kong-universities-tolerate-destructive-lawbreaking?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/3028163/why-should-hong-kong-universities-tolerate-destructive-lawbreaking?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Sep 2019 00:37:35 +0000 Students at a Hong Kong university have continued to protest on campus, despite the varsity president’s warning of disciplinary action against those who vandalised his office building two days ago. About 50 students gathered at the Baptist University building containing the provost’s office on Wednesday afternoon, urging varsity president and vice-chancellor Roland Chin Tai-hong to respond to their demands, which included condemning police for the arrests of their fellow scholars. Varsity... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3027967/hong-kong-baptist-university-students-continue-protests?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3027967/hong-kong-baptist-university-students-continue-protests?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:36:10 +0000 A Baptist University student who was disciplined for taking part in a protest against the Hong Kong school’s Mandarin language graduation requirement has launched a legal challenge to overthrow the decision. Chinese medicine student Andrew Chan Lok-hang said in a judicial review application filed to the High Court on Friday he had been subjected to “procedural unfairness” when the university’s Student Affairs Committee upheld a disciplinary panel’s decision that his behaviour had violated school... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/community/article/2160274/hong-kong-student-who-was-disciplined-over-baptist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/community/article/2160274/hong-kong-student-who-was-disciplined-over-baptist?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Aug 2018 23:31:28 +0000 When I was at a liberal American arts college during the 1980s, all students had to pass two language tests to graduate: one in Attic or ancient Greek and one in French. If you want to talk about practicality, our language curriculum was useless. No one speaks Attic Greek today, not even the Greeks themselves. But we were required to read some Plato and others in the original. The French requirement was more practical. With few exceptions, most of us have forgotten whatever reading and... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2153009/baptist-university-speaks-right-language?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2153009/baptist-university-speaks-right-language?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 28 Jun 2018 21:18:36 +0000 Baptist University will retain its unpopular requirement for students to pass a Mandarin module to graduate, its highest authority on academic matters decided on Wednesday, more than five months after 30 students stormed a language centre in protest. But the university’s student union rejected the senate’s decision, calling it a move to “dilute the controversy” without addressing the views of students. The graduation requirement has been in place since 2007. Students can take a three-part... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2152795/student-anger-hong-kong-university-opts-keep-rule-stops?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2152795/student-anger-hong-kong-university-opts-keep-rule-stops?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Jun 2018 14:09:08 +0000 A student involved in a rowdy anti-Mandarin learning protest at Hong Kong Baptist University’s language centre early this year has posted a “confession” on campus to offer a mocking apology to the Communist Party, the nation, the people, and the university for not respecting the language. With an apparently ironic and scornful tone, William Liu Wai-lim mocked the university’s policy on Mandarin proficiency as a bid to please the mainland authorities. The drama came after the university... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2147158/mocking-confession-posted-hong-kong-baptist-university-wake?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2147158/mocking-confession-posted-hong-kong-baptist-university-wake?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 May 2018 14:09:18 +0000 Hong Kong Baptist University has rejected an appeal by two students to overturn punishments meted out to them for their role in rowdy protests over a Mandarin language graduation requirement, and one youngster says he will pursue legal action against the school if possible. Chinese medicine student Andrew Chan Lok-hang and environmental science student William Liu Wai-lim, both 22, were notified on Thursday that their appeal against a decision by a panel on student disciplinary cases was... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2146834/hong-kong-baptist-university-students-lose-appeal-against?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2146834/hong-kong-baptist-university-students-lose-appeal-against?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 May 2018 12:34:28 +0000 Out of the latest sorry furore over University of Hong Kong law professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting, there is perhaps at least one saving grace.  The incident in Taipei should at least prove to young separatists bent on secession for Hong Kong that Mandarin is highly useful for the purpose. If nothing else, you need the language to communicate with your comrades and plot revolution in Taiwan. That should help promote Mandarin among young local rebels by vastly increasing its appeal. Government... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2140338/mandarin-language-independence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2140338/mandarin-language-independence?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Apr 2018 18:02:02 +0000 Nine student organisations in Hong Kong have criticised Baptist University for “suppressing freedom”, a day after it disciplined two students for their role in a rowdy protest against a Mandarin language graduation requirement. The statement from the Federation of Students came as one of the two students, Andrew Chan Lok-hang, 22, insisted on Tuesday that it was “unfair” for the university to rule that his participation in the protest in January constituted “indecent behaviour”, which he... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2140026/nine-hong-kong-student-unions-slam-baptist-university?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2140026/nine-hong-kong-student-unions-slam-baptist-university?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Apr 2018 03:37:38 +0000 Two Hong Kong Baptist University students on Monday warned of a chilling effect on the right to express dissent as they were disciplined for a second time over their role in a rowdy protest against a Mandarin language graduation requirement. The university barred former student union president Lau Tsz-Kei, 20, for one semester, and Chinese medicine student Andrew Chan Lok-hang, 22, for eight days. Lau, a freshman, had yet to learn when his punishment would take effect, while it was determined... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2139863/new-suspensions-two-baptist-university-students-involved?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2139863/new-suspensions-two-baptist-university-students-involved?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Apr 2018 02:30:45 +0000 The sole candidate for the controversial position of Baptist University student union president has vowed to continue fighting for the cancellation of an unpopular Mandarin graduation requirement, and says her cabinet has “no bottom line” on achieving its agenda. The student body is voting to choose an executive committee for the first time since the university suspended current president Lau Tsz-kei and Chinese medicine student Andrew Chan Lok-hang for a week over their involvement in a... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2139330/hong-kong-baptist-university-student-union-hopeful-has-no?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2139330/hong-kong-baptist-university-student-union-hopeful-has-no?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:00:15 +0000 Baptist University has set up two working groups under its senate to review whether a controversial Mandarin graduation requirement should be scrapped, with the student union calling the move a delaying tactic. Student union president Lau Tsz-kei, who is also a member of the senate, announced the move on Monday after a senate meeting. The working groups are expected to submit their reports by June.  But Lau said he was disappointed that the school was delaying the decision with tensions boiling... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2133082/baptist-university-senate-groups-review-controversial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2133082/baptist-university-senate-groups-review-controversial?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:02:18 +0000 When I first arrived in Hong Kong, one of the things that struck me most forcefully was the lack of envy. There was a wide gulf in the material circumstances of the population. Hillside squatter huts existed cheek by jowl with palatial mansions. But when poor people saw a person driving a Rolls-Royce, they didn’t resent it. Rather, they dreamed that if they worked hard and had some luck, then one day they might be well off too or at least their children would have a chance to succeed. Street... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2132666/how-disillusioned-youth-and-politics-envy-are-eroding-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2132666/how-disillusioned-youth-and-politics-envy-are-eroding-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Feb 2018 01:33:26 +0000 Over the past few years, Hong Kong universities have become prominent sites of contentious politics, from the organisation of Occupy Central to ongoing disputes between groups of students over the democracy wall at Chinese University and the recent stand-off against Baptist University’s Mandarin language graduation requirement mounted by two student union leaders. Pro-democracy camps have leveraged these cases to suggest a broader oppression from the mainland, whereas pro-Beijing groups have... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2132267/universities-are-places-education-not-political-protests?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2132267/universities-are-places-education-not-political-protests?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Feb 2018 04:03:29 +0000 As someone who has lived and worked in Hong Kong and now lives in the US, I read about the Baptist College student demonstration against the mandatory requirement of Mandarin skills with bemusement. Every college has a language requirement for graduation, which it has a right to set. Students pick their college, and that’s that. Instead of trying to perfect their Mandarin, these students chose to demonstrate to alter the requirement. That sounds like the easy way out. But I also see this as a... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2132075/hong-kong-student-clashes-authority-are-result-too-much?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2132075/hong-kong-student-clashes-authority-are-result-too-much?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Feb 2018 03:00:19 +0000 In the past few years, some of our university students have repeatedly displayed mob-like, rowdy and insensitive behaviour on campus, leading some people to conclude that our young people are hopeless. Defending these students, others argue that our young people face more pressure and frustration and so hold more grudges than their parents. They argue that our young people do not have opportunities for upward mobility or to earn enough to afford a flat, let alone fulfil their political... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2131588/theres-hope-hong-kongs-youth-if-they-can-look-beyond?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2131588/theres-hope-hong-kongs-youth-if-they-can-look-beyond?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 04 Feb 2018 04:02:53 +0000 After weeks of protests, anger and even death threats over a Mandarin language exam at Baptist University, campus seemed to have calmed down by the end of this week, when the school announced it was lifting the suspensions of two students, after the pair apologised to affected staff. But for the two central figures, the saga’s denouement was not an act of surrender, as they try to refocus the debate back to what kicked it all off – the institution’s Mandarin language graduation... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2131844/contrite-undeterred-suspended-students-look-back-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2131844/contrite-undeterred-suspended-students-look-back-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Feb 2018 07:02:13 +0000 Two Baptist University students who were suspended over alleged threats to staff during a stand-off on campus over a Mandarin language requirement have been allowed to resume classes. The latest twist came a day after the publicly funded university said it would review the suspension following personal apologies from student union president Lau Tsz-kei and Chinese medicine student Andrew Chan Lok-hang to the teachers involved on Tuesday. Hong Kong Baptist University students apologise to... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2131575/baptist-u-lifts-suspensions-student-pair-involved-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2131575/baptist-u-lifts-suspensions-student-pair-involved-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Feb 2018 08:00:00 +0000 Most people in Hong Kong have probably seen the Baptist University video which went viral last week. For anyone who did not, it showed a group of students, including the union leader, confronting staff members at the campus language centre. One used foul language and the students’ behaviour towards the shorter, female staff member seemed physically intimidating. A lot of commentators have focused on the students’ complaint about a compulsory Mandarin language requirement for undergraduates. This... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2131497/hong-kong-not-alone-trend-intolerant-youth?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2131497/hong-kong-not-alone-trend-intolerant-youth?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Feb 2018 04:46:42 +0000 Beleaguered Baptist University officials softened their stance on Wednesday, saying they would review the suspension of two students over alleged threats to staff during a stand-off on campus. The announcement, made in an email to students, staff and alumni by president Roland Chin Tai-hong, came a day after student union president Lau Tsz-kei and Chinese medicine student Andrew Chan Lok-hang apologised to teachers in person. Baptist University should stop forcing students to do courses “We are... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2131446/hong-kong-baptist-university-relents-agrees-review?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2131446/hong-kong-baptist-university-relents-agrees-review?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:30:15 +0000 Two Hong Kong Baptist University students suspended over an eight-hour campus stand-off this month apologised to teachers in person on Tuesday, the day before the deadline the pair gave administrators to lift their suspensions or face possible action. Student union leader Lau Tsz-kei and Andrew Chan Lok-hang, convenor of a Cantonese language support group, met three teachers in private on Tuesday morning. Hong Kong Baptist University to review Mandarin requirement in bid to ease tensions The... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2131249/hong-kong-baptist-university-students-apologise-teachers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2131249/hong-kong-baptist-university-students-apologise-teachers?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Jan 2018 11:45:45 +0000 It is truly bizarre for some university students in Hong Kong to think it’s an unjustified burden to make them achieve a degree of fluency in Mandarin. And there are even scholars who support them. Let’s leave aside the pro- and anti-mainland politics and just ask, is having a language requirement unreasonable at a university? My background is in history and philosophy. In my days in North America, we needed an additional language to graduate in philosophy, which usually meant German or French.... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2130811/learning-mandarin-could-be-just-job?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2130811/learning-mandarin-could-be-just-job?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:08:49 +0000 Hundreds marched on Baptist University campus on Friday to protest against the suspension of two students over an ill-tempered stand-off with staff about the school’s Mandarin language requirements. They would not rule out escalated action if management do not reverse the decision. Protesters, including the institution’s students, staff and alumni plus students from other local universities and members of the public, flooded the Jockey Club Courtyard of the school’s Kowloon Tong campus.... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130774/hundreds-march-hong-kong-university-decry-mandarin-row?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130774/hundreds-march-hong-kong-university-decry-mandarin-row?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:15:00 +0000 The breakdown of communal consensus and the social fabric is a destructive and dangerous thing. The question of what constitutes the local language and the national language goes to the very heart of the matter in Hong Kong. Twenty years ago, everyone agreed that Hong Kong people should strive to become trilingual in Cantonese, Mandarin and English. It’s true that not everyone can master more than one language, but a working knowledge of the other two has long been considered desirable. Now,... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2130639/hong-kong-students-real-losers-language-battle?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2130639/hong-kong-students-real-losers-language-battle?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:31:34 +0000 The controversy surrounding Hong Kong Baptist University’s suspension of two undergraduates before investigations were completed over alleged threats to staff last week has escalated, with a large march organised by students expected on campus on Friday. Members from other universities are lending their support to pressure university president Roland Chin Tai-hong to retract the suspensions, with students set to participate in the rally and a confederation of staff unions issuing condemnation’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130620/outraged-hong-kong-baptist-university-students-plan-friday?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130620/outraged-hong-kong-baptist-university-students-plan-friday?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:15:45 +0000 Notices with abusive language directed at Baptist University president Roland Chin Tai-hong appeared in at least two other tertiary institutions on Wednesday night, hours after two students were suspended over a controversial protest on campus last week. How a compulsory Mandarin course caused chaos at Hong Kong Baptist University On the “Democracy Wall” at the University of Hong Kong in Pok Fu Lam, several posters printed in Chinese had been put up.  One expressed support for the BU students,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130462/expletive-laden-posters-insulting-baptist-university-head?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130462/expletive-laden-posters-insulting-baptist-university-head?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Jan 2018 01:22:13 +0000 An eight-hour stand-off between students at Hong Kong Baptist University and staff at the school’s Language Centre last week unleashed a chain of events that peaked with death threats against one of the youngsters, and the suspension of two students.  Expletive-laden posters insulting Baptist University head Roland Chin put up at Hong Kong campuses About 30 youngsters headed to the centre after many students failed a Mandarin proficiency test that would allow them to bypass a compulsory... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130419/how-compulsory-mandarin-course-caused-chaos-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130419/how-compulsory-mandarin-course-caused-chaos-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:00:15 +0000 Two students involved in an eight-hour stand-off at a campus protest against a Mandarin language graduation requirement last week have been suspended, Baptist University’s president said on Wednesday. Declaring in an emotional announcement that they had posed a danger to staff at the institution, Roland Chin Tai-hong identified student union leader Lau Tsz-kei and Andrew Chan Lok-hang, convenor of a Cantonese language support group, for temporary ­suspension pending the completion of... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130390/two-baptist-university-students-suspended-over-campus?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130390/two-baptist-university-students-suspended-over-campus?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:00:45 +0000 No one likes exams, but some hate them more than most. An unpopular mandatory Mandarin test at a public university has drawn attention to one of the Hong Kong’s most divisive issues: language. Hong Kong's publicly funded Baptist University has come under fire in an ongoing debate surrounding its Mandarin language requirement for graduation. In Hong Kong, Cantonese is commonly spoken, not Mandarin. A January protest over the issue turned into an eight-hour stand-off between student protesters... https://www.scmp.com/china/baptist-university-student-protest-explained/article/2130291?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/baptist-university-student-protest-explained/article/2130291?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jan 2018 05:15:30 +0000 A Chinese medicine student who took part in a recent protest against a Mandarin graduation requirement at Baptist University was forced to cut short his internship at a mainland hospital after staff received calls threatening his personal safety. Andrew Chan Lok-hang, a fifth-year student who arrived in Guangzhou on Saturday for a one-year internship at the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine returned to Hong Kong on Tuesday night after a discussion with the university. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130274/baptist-university-student-cuts-short-guangzhou-internship?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130274/baptist-university-student-cuts-short-guangzhou-internship?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jan 2018 01:17:36 +0000 Baptist University officials promised on Tuesday to consider all possibilities in reviewing a Mandarin graduation requirement in a bid to calm tensions that had been boiling over on the Hong Kong campus. Officials met students for the first time since about 30 students stormed the university’s Language Centre last week with student union president Lau Tsz-kei hurling vulgarities at a staff member.  Opinion: Baptist University students should go back to primary school After the orderly meeting,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130246/hong-kong-baptist-university-officials-agree-review?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130246/hong-kong-baptist-university-officials-agree-review?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:02:27 +0000 Hong Kong Baptist University’s president has asserted that while he wants to give students room to learn from their mistakes, he will not compromise in upholding ethical and behavioural codes. Roland Chin Tai-hong’s comments came as calls grew for the institution to take disciplinary action against students who stormed a centre and hurled vulgarities at staff when thundering against a Mandarin requirement necessary for graduation. Chin said he was inclined to adopt a liberal stance to fulfil... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130077/no-compromise-ethical-code-hong-kong-baptist-university?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2130077/no-compromise-ethical-code-hong-kong-baptist-university?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Jan 2018 00:04:24 +0000 A group of angry students stormed the Baptist University language centre, then threatened and harassed its staff for more than eight hours. By now, you have probably seen a video clip, which has gone viral, showing how student union president Lau Tsz-kei and others physically intimidated staff and shouted obscenities at them. The students were upset that 70 per cent of those who took a recent Mandarin exam flunked it and demanded to be shown the exam-marking instructions. That piqued my... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2130098/baptist-university-students-should-go-back-primary-school?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2130098/baptist-university-students-should-go-back-primary-school?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:25:52 +0000 The head of Hong Kong Baptist University hit out at students for their “unruly behaviour” towards teachers during an eight-hour protest on campus, as video emerged showing the student union leader using foul language while addressing an instructor. A clip that surfaced on Facebook last week showed Baptist University student union president Lau Tsz-kei speaking aggressively during the stand-off in which he was joined by 30 other students. The protests stemmed from dissatisfaction over the results... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2129834/baptist-university-president-hits-out-unruly-student?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2129834/baptist-university-president-hits-out-unruly-student?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Jan 2018 01:30:40 +0000 Hong Kong Baptist University has set an ambitious target to hire 100 of the “best and brightest” professors within the next five years to help transform the institution into a “leading liberal arts university” in Asia, its president said on Tuesday. The drive to recruit 100 new academic staff, part of the university’s 10-year strategic plan, will mainly focus on strengthening teaching and research in three clusters: creative media; health and drug discovery; data analytics and artificial... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2122009/hong-kong-baptist-university-looks-hire-100-best-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/2122009/hong-kong-baptist-university-looks-hire-100-best-and?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:47:24 +0000 As a lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University’s Language Centre, I support the university’s recent decision to relax attendance requirements for all its students. In the past, students skipping more than 30 per cent of classes would fail a course automatically. Under the new policy, they can still pass with less-than-perfect attendance records. Despite its potential impact on students’ class participation, this new policy may improve the overall quality of teaching and stimulate innovation among... https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/2109347/relaxed-attendance-rules-hong-kongs-baptist-university-will-improve?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/2109347/relaxed-attendance-rules-hong-kongs-baptist-university-will-improve?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 01 Sep 2017 08:59:22 +0000