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A grand reception was held on 1 March for the 136 outstanding students selected for the Executive Mentoring Scheme (EMS). At the reception, in the campus Multi-Purpose rooms, the students were able to meet their new mentors.
Miss Marui Noriko, a budding teacher from Japan, spent three weeks, from mid-February to early March, in the Division of Language Studies on an internship programme to polish her Japanese teaching skills. Her brief stay proved to be a stimulating experience for both Miss Noriko and the students in the Division.
First, some background and a disclaimer. Linkage is well aware that the University Grants Committee, in its current review of higher education in Hong Kong, is planning to stream the existing seven universities into teaching-oriented and research-oriented institutions (Linkage No. 208). This proposal has caused great consternation in the higher education sector.
The Department of Management attracted an all-star lineup from among Hong Kong's business elite to shares their insights and experience at the department's first Residential Workshop for Human Resources Management final-year students.
I wish all of our colleagues a very productive Year of the Horse, with prompt success in work, good health and fortune, like a horse galloping at strength." So began the President's festive wishes when Linkage caught up with him on the eve of the Lunar New Year. Professor H K Chang's remarks, which he described as freewheeling as a flying horse, dwell on a word play of equine-related Chinese proverbs and idioms.
Dr Brian Mitchenere has crossed his fingers many times that a project will be finished on time and according to plan. So the Associate Director of Campus Planning can be excused for having his fingers and toes crossed these days, as the official completion date for Blocks I and II of Phase I of the student hostels project draws near.
Staff and students opened this year's Wellness March activities by planting a peepul tree and rosa hybrida seedlings on the university hillside trail.
A CityU book, Chinese Civilisation: A Source Book (second edition), has been selected as one of the Ten Recommended Books for this year. The annual event, co-organized by Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) and the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, picks 10 quality books recommended by distinguished residents and celebrities. The CityU publication was chosen by Mr Vincent Cheng, Vice-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Hang Seng Bank.