Introduction of the HEAR scheme (appropriately translated into “HEA” scheme in Chinese) represents the death of university education.
We must remember that university is meant to be an academic institution. Not an employment agency. The HEAR scheme effectively transforms all UK universities into “德成女傭”. And all university students into Filipino maids.
There is a long-standing distinction between academics and extra-curricular activities. There are always people who try to muddy the waters by creating concepts like “physical education”, “hall/college education”, and “work education”. One day, we might find people using the tautologous phrase “academic education”.
However much employers value students’ engagement in extra-curricular activities, it does not follow the universities should become slaves of all employers. Work and education should remain as separate pursuits.It is an absolute shame for universities to start printing CVs for students instead of academic transcripts.
It remains for me to hope that Oxbridge will not simply follow suit and go astray.
Ironically, these record-breaking fines charged on Intel and Microsoft don’t go to consumers. I doubt whether they were / will be ever put into productive use (in Europe!) ...
Once again, Donald Tsang got himself into deep shit by uttering words not included in his prepared speech.
His suggestion that “Bow Tie Keeps Your Promise” cannot be saved by any method of construction. Someone can keep his (own) promise, but not “your” promise or anybody else’s promise. Not even the principles of agency can save him.
He was probably trying to start a joke by suggesting the (doubtful) fact that “Bow Tie Keeps His Promise” to the pan-democrats, but he only remembered to change “keep” to “keeps”, but not “your” to “his”.
Presumably when person A criticizes person B about matter X, person A is impliedly asserting that s/he is good at X, or at least better than B at X. The funny thing is that this implied assertion may turn out to be a false statement. And this false assertion may come back to haunt A.
This A was Donald Tsang when he made his speech at Legco today, but now replaced by the author of the above article (re-read the bolded sentence which reflects his poor English ability).
An important lesson that Richard Eng has taught us:
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