Hong Kong Baptist University to review Mandarin requirement in bid to ease tensions
Although cooler heads are prevailing, a student who took part in campus protest returns home from internship at mainland hospital after phone threats
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.
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After the orderly meeting, vice-president for teaching and learning Albert Chau Wai-lap told reporters that the school would review the Mandarin requirement by consulting different stakeholders.
“The university will consider all possibilities but we need to talk with not only students – students’ views are very important – but we need also to consider teachers’ views as well as the current expectations of the community,” he said.
The Post has learned that one of the students who took part in the protest put on hold his internship at a mainland hospital and returned to Hong Kong last night.
