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    https://twitter.com/xinwenxiaojie/st...12038203027456
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    Quote Originally Posted by MatthieuTofu:
    Patten was right in his final vice-regal speech - the biggest problem would be local quislings too eager to give everything away.

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    University exchange is definitely affected by the US rescinding recognition of HK special status, the White House statement includes:

    (h) suspend continued cooperation undertaken consistent with the now-expired Protocol Between the U.S. Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior of the United States of America and Institute of Space and Earth Information Science of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Concerning Scientific and Technical Cooperation in Earth Sciences (TIAS 09-1109);

    (i) take steps to terminate the Fulbright exchange program with regard to China and Hong Kong with respect to future exchanges for participants traveling both from and to China or Hong Kong;


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    This article is on how the US may overestimate the strength of China, but this particular passage from the article on education is insightful:

    China may find that catching up is hard to do. Its students have been flooding into U.S. colleges for a reason: China’s higher education system compares poorly with its U.S. counterpart. In one ranking of the world’s best universities, the first Chinese entry, Peking University, doesn’t appear until number 92—after 50 American ones. Professors and students at Chinese colleges aren’t allowed to speak, write, or study freely, either. A new index of academic fteedom, released in March, ranked China behind such paragons of intellectual openness as Cuba and Iran.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...luence/612961/

    The question is, is that also in store for HK universities as well? We have already seen the termination of the fulbright scholarship. International collaboration in hi-tech areas no doubt will be affected. There is already a warning about "zero-tolerance" to discuss politics at HKUSpace, soon history and other subjects will be forbidden to discuss. The end result is no doubt a decline in academic ranking.

    Local secondary schools are already known, fairly or not, as regurgitation and memoriziation machines rather than fostering true education and critical thinking. And since authorities now treat critical thinking as a threat to their rule, innovation and entrepreneurship in hi-tech industries, long a cherished goal by the government, can be also be kissed goodbye. You cannot innovate without critical thinking, without questioning things as it stands, there can be no progress.

    To limit free speech and criminalize criticism against the government is therefore harmful, first to the quality of HK's education and second, to the long-term well-being and development of society.

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    Not the best sound quality - this video shows why some people have a 'radio' and others don't, but it gets across the point that the Chinese education system does not foster creativity or critical thinking. Considering that all (?) local universities profess to have critical thinking in their vision, I wonder how that circle will be squared ...

    https://youtu.be/SBpdPEmcIvM


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    Quote Originally Posted by Coolboy:
    This article is on how the US may overestimate the strength of China, but this particular passage from the article on education is insightful:

    China may find that catching up is hard to do. Its students have been flooding into U.S. colleges for a reason: China’s higher education system compares poorly with its U.S. counterpart. In one ranking of the world’s best universities, the first Chinese entry, Peking University, doesn’t appear until number 92—after 50 American ones. Professors and students at Chinese colleges aren’t allowed to speak, write, or study freely, either. A new index of academic fteedom, released in March, ranked China behind such paragons of intellectual openness as Cuba and Iran.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...luence/612961/

    The question is, is that also in store for HK universities as well? We have already seen the termination of the fulbright scholarship. International collaboration in hi-tech areas no doubt will be affected. There is already a warning about "zero-tolerance" to discuss politics at HKUSpace, soon history and other subjects will be forbidden to discuss. The end result is no doubt a decline in academic ranking.
    For what it's worth, Peking is much higher on many rankings, sometimes ahead of HK universities (as Tsinghua also often is.) They chose to cherrypick the ranking that confirmed the thesis of the article.

    And the HKUSpace email was some kind of zealous example of low level self-censorship that the school quickly disavowed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by prospectiveHKer:
    For what it's worth, Peking is much higher on many rankings, sometimes ahead of HK universities (as Tsinghua also often is.) They chose to cherrypick the ranking that confirmed the thesis of the article.

    And the HKUSpace email was some kind of zealous example of low level self-censorship that the school quickly disavowed.
    Peking and Tsinghua...very high rankings? Compared to what though? Harvard? MIT? Oxford? Cambridge? I think the latter universities still outrank Tsinghua and Peking.

    Yes, Peking and Tsinghua has the best and the brighest from mainland China. The cream of the crop. But that is only a tiny tiny elite. It is hardly representative of most Chinese colleges. The rest of the mainland education system...does not foster critical and independent thinking.

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