Baptist University senate groups to review controversial Mandarin graduation requirement
Working group to be set up on the documentation of Mandarin graduation achievement and a second group on the review of communication graduation attributes
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 over on campus over the unpopular policy and how the school handled dissident voices.
Lau was among 30 students who stormed the school’s language centre about a month ago, demanding the university end the requirement, introduced in 2007, for local undergraduates to pass a Mandarin module to graduate.