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A n expert panel conduc叫 arevie:.of management practices at UST fc the University Grants Committee completed its campus visit on 21 April w~th words of praise for the Univer叫ty'ssuccess·
in building a quality institution so rapidly and for the high degree of collegiality they observed among the University administra-tors they had met.
They also identified three areas for attention: benchmarks for measuring the University's performance against peer inst!-tutions around the world, management information to support decision making, and adaptation of processes devised duri_ng a time of start-up and rapid growth towards a steady-state situation. A written report detailing the panel's findings will be issued in due course.
The site inspection at UST was the first campus visit for the UGC -Management Review Steering Group, which will conduct a similar review of all UGC-fu.nded institutions. The chairman of the steering group is Prof William F. Mass弘 whois president of an educational consultancy in the US and a former vice-president of business and finance at Stanford University. Four of the group法 eightmembers are heads of overseas academic institutions;the other four are local members, including UGC Secretary-General Nigel
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French and industrialist York Liao.The one and-a-half-day campus visit began with a presentation by President Chia-Wei Woo, who gave an overview of management philosophy, structure and practices at UST This was followed by separate meetings with him and with the vice-presidents and representatives of the University Administrative Committee and -· Senate committees.
During the afternoon, the review panel broke into three gi'oups which.met sepa-rately with deans, department heads and directors. On the morning of the second day, the panel met again as a single group to review its findings and conduct follow-up meetings. The:campus visit cortcluded with a
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feedback presentation” to the University’
s senior administrators and a final meeting with the Council chairman, Dr Sze-yuen Chung.A President Chia-Wei Woo and Prof William F. Massy.
The campus visit was the climax of.a rev
notification from UGC about the scope of the impending revie，、， the documentatior 1 that 1哼ouldbe required, and salient ideas
concerning good management prac· tice in academic administration, research administration, maintenance 叩destate development, procurement, student services, human resources, IT management and finance.
In mid-February, a team of UGC consultants from Coopers & Lybrand visited UST for four days to meet with the University president, vice-presidents, deans, directors, and heads of departments and com-mittees. The result of this prelimi-nary visit was a confidential report to UGC which set the parameters for the revie1,1 panel
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S visit in April. When completed, a draft of the review panel's written report will be sent to UST for correction of factual errors, and an official resp9nse to the final report will be invited from the University.Agenda for Change
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SA&B Branch, which was already well along in its own review of operational procedures and resot江ces.
The capstone of this internal review was a one-day retreat for A&B directors held at the University Center in mid-February, before the UGC management consultants
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visit to USTThe retreat was planned by VP-AB Paul Bolton as an occasion for office hold-ers to get away from the daily routine in order to 出口1.kstrategically and commu-nally about changes the future ，.代rillbring and how to prepare for them.
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We know th平tchange is coming anyway;' said Mr Bolton,“so how do we manage change so that we can cope with it in a positive way?” The watchword of the day was how 的 do more 1-1 ith less. Aware the University was entering a period of consolidation, A&B directors identified core pro<cesses in their office that could benefit from review and streamlining, and presented their report to a select audience ofUniversity and academic administrators at the retreat.
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It was very helpful for everyone not only to see what others are doing, but to see what the problems and constraints are from each other's standpoint;' said Helen Wong, Mr Bolton's executive assistant.Besides a heightened awareness of the process of change, a tangible result was the formation of a worl也1ggroup, headed by Philip Wong, DFO, to support A&B directors through the· provision of appropriate tools and information-technology resources. VP-RD's Assessment... ... .. . .. ...… 2 、‘ J
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highlighted by a well-attended talk by Prof Otto Lin, VP-RD,on 出eUniversity’s role in the future development of Hong Kong.
Lin, who also outlined plans for a conference a'nd training center and a residential {ommunity in Nansha.
叭「ithseed funding from the Fok Ying Tung Foundation, the Na.nsha IT park is already gaining the enthusiastic support of other universiti的 inChina. "Many of the leading universities are excited
about participating in 出is project，九aidProf Lin.
Prof Lin presented a succinct analysis of Hong Kong's position in the regional and global econom},, followed by an overview_of
infrastructure and activities in the University's R&D Branch Discussing the prospects for success of this venture and others like 泣， ProfLin gave a frank assessment of some of the bottlenecks impeding progress in the development of hi-tech industries in the region, including deficits in government leadership, social awareness and university preparedness for such a mission.
aimed at enhancing that position, including plans to build a new IT park i.n Nansha.
One notable feat me of his presentation was an empha-sis on the ecology of hi-tech industrial development, in which scientific and technological innovations are seen to play a centr祉， butby no means the only, role in the growth of advanced industries.
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We should provide motivation and assistance for平arefactors such as industJ ial policy, environ men-tal and regional planning, human resources developr)1ent, an e缸ectivelegal framework and the support of society.
In Nansha, at the mouth of the Pearl River, all these factors, he hopes, will come into play in.the creation of an Information Technology park intended to nurture new IT businesses and upgrade industrial competitiveness in. the region.
UST has agreed to play a central role in this project.
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What we want to do is build a software indusfry to provide the core of the Nansha development;' said ProfCAUGHT
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excelle_nt employment record. Of more than 1,800 bachelor
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sdegree recipients in 1997, 98% were working full-time or
pur-suing further studies by the end of the year, according fo a survey conducted by the Career Center.
The survey showed that 86% had found full-time employment or started their own businesses by December 1997, an increase of
4% over the previous year. Commerce and business (74%) contin
ued as the largest employment sector, followed by manufacturing and industries (13%),~nd education (4%).
Engineering, marketing and sales, and systems analysis and
computer pi·og,ramming were the most popular types of jobs. The
11umber of graduates who became teachers continued ·to drop，自om
12% in 1994 to less-than 3% last year.
Only 2% of the graduates were underemployed or unemployed,
a drop from 3% a year earlier. Of these, 21 individuals had received
offers but declined them in search of better opportunities.
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The employment record of our graduates remains highly satisfactory
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said Cheryl Lee, counselor at the Career Center.“
Programshere are practical and market-oriented, so our students are trained
to be competitive in accounting, information technology, infrastruc ture, and other flourishing industries.’,
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It remains to be seen how far the job market w山 be a釘ected bythe economic.downtur
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said Ms Lee.“
The financial turmoilbe-gan last October, but most"of our students had started job-hunting
b.efore May and secured a job by September.
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These graduates received more job offers than their predeces-sors on average. Nearly half, or 47%, received more than two offers,
and 25% more than three. Their median basic monthly salary rose
nearly 10% to $11,500.
Banking (6%)
Employment by Job Category, 1997
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Computer programmimg (16%)
The majority (70%) said they would stay in their current job
during the next 12 months whereas 26% would consider changing
jobs or fields. Only 3% planned to quit their job to return to school.
More than l 0% of the graduates opted for further studies. Of
the vast majority (93%) who did-so in local institutions, more than three-quarters chose to return to UST. Science students took the lead
in pursuing further studies, with more than 40% of physics gradu
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The survey covered 1,802 bachelor
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ON THE
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Confusion-ism
It'sj…叭obody 心ds
the news coverage of the voting system· we now have in Hong Kong at all strange?
What I mean is: all the stories seem
to be about how confusing the system is. I saw this·in print, on the local television
news, on CNN
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s coverage, and mostrecently on CNBC Asia Business News. The big story is that this system is
confusing, and to cover 出estory there
are interviews with a lot of people from
various walks of lifi巴， all of whom are
telling us it sure confuses them. Instead
of devotin_g one or two minutes to
explaining the system and de司ringup
some of the confusion, five to ten
minutes are used to tell us, over and over ad nauseam, that everyone is confused about the system.
Oh, there is usually a short sound.
bite from some Government spokes~
man, but he isn
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t given a chance toexplain the system either-only to ·say
it is not really that confusing. And since
this is embedded in the testimony of all those other folks who are obviously
completely bewildered, it doesn't come
across as very convincing.
Now actually folks, the system is NOT rocket science, even if it is a bit different from what you are used to. You vote for a list of candidates, instead of just one candidate, and the number from that List that gets elected depends on how
many votes the list gets. If there.are four seats to be filled, and your list gets 25%
of the vote, then one of your guys gets
in. How confusing is that?
Of cour詞， inthe more familiar
sys-tem, if your party only got 25% of the
vote, you would not be represented at all:
In the simple, easy to understand
sys-tem, 51 % of the people can get 100% of
the representation. I agree that is simpleι but it is hard to claim that it is more democratic.
An叭•ay,it is not my place to defend
the list voting system, since I-spent all of
my voting years quite happy. with the
first past-the-post system almost
uni-formly applied in the U.S. I just wish the media felt their job extended to
inform-ing and educating us instead of only
alarming us. After all, the Hong Kong
voting system can be understood-even
b}reporters and editors, if they just give themselves a chance.
On the other hand, I would love to
see them try to explain JUPAS to the
public. If the people here would like to
know what real confusion 峙， weshould
adapt JUPAS to select members of
LegCo. The candidates would have to list
· up to 20 seats from geographical and
functional constituencies in priority order. Then the electorate in each con-sfituency would prepare a ranked offer
list (not knowing how the candidates
had ranked them) which the computer
would match with the candidate
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吋 Winnersof Music Fire
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98 dem-onstrated their singing andcompo-sition skills 泌的eInter College Music
Association Singing Contest on 12
一March.Anthony Jim and Kiki Chan
•won the best group performance
award, while Eric Yung
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s talentsearned him the best composition·
award. Wong Cheung, who sang
Eric
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s love song, won the bestinter-pretation aware.I.
UST winners {from left): Eric
Yung,Wong Cheung, Anthony Jim
and Kiki Chan.
、 司， Toencourage amateurs to develop an interest in
. fencing, the Fencing Club introduced new awards at
the 3rd Internal Competition. Lau Tak Leung (EEE, 1)
and Bibiana Chow Chin Yan (BBA, 1) won
charnpion-ships in the Beginner Men
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s and Ladfes' Foil events,respectively. Benny To Wai Yin (IEEM, 1) was the
win-ner in Men
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s Foil, Lau Wing Kwok (Econ, 3) in Ladies’
Foil, and Franrn Yu Fai (IEEM, 3) in Open Epee.
﹔主
• The UST men’s rowing team continued its 5叭”
cess at the HKUST Indoor Rowing Intercollegiate
Cliampionship, winning the mel)
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The UST team also won the Overall Chj!mpion， 、h國’，＇，
ship (University Division) at the 41 st Festival of Sport
Indoor Rowing ChamP,ionships held in early April.
• UST Athletics Team members broke three records at the 4th
Quadran-gle Athletic Competition held in mid-February. Irene Chan Pui Fong (IEEM,
3) broke the records in the BOOm and 1 SOOm races, while fellow team
mem-ber Alvin Law Ka Man (MECH, 3) set a new record in the triple jump event.
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巴rsat the second Business Mentoring Forum, held in late Mar℃h.
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Here Stephen Chow (middle) shares his experience of starting up a company with potential entrepreneurs. Paul Wong Wai Kit (BBA, 1)
learned that preparation paves the way for future success.
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Ifl know therequirements earl弘 Ican better prepare myself for the jo仗， hesays. Aware
of the econo~nic downturn, he wants to join t'he government after
graduation：“It這 stablewith good career prospects
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in the multistory car park. The whole of the LG6 has been a
storage area for a long time;then part of LG4 was turned into squash
courts. Two more slots were occupied by large woqden boxes and
recently about half of the remaining car park on LG4 has-been
blocked off for construction wor丸 withoutprior notice. We would
lil<e to know how many more spaces in the multistory car park will
be lost. Xo compensate for the loss in covered car park slots, will the
University consider providing covered parking spaces in the open area outside the multistory car parl<?
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MikeHuds叫rectorof Esta川nageme1 咒 nuncovered car parking spaces has been ,educei:I as a consequence of the Universit｝屯 successfullypersuading the UGC to fund additional indoor
sports faciEties on LG4. These facilities 1－、•er
increased 白oorto ceiling height on this floor.
“EMO ，、•ill,during the next six months, be reducing the amount of
storage in the car park in order to release additional spaces. Our request to the UGCfor an extension to the covered car park was not supported
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pus Calendar
Until 15 JulyPoetry and Painting: Cheung Ping
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sWorld of Photography ‘USTLibrarγExhibition 7May· Tenor Concert Liu Dong Exposition Hall, 8 pm 9May
Cantonese Opera Demonstration Dream of the Peony Pavillion
Tse Suet Sum Exposition Hall, 2:30 pm 9May Garage Sale · LG2 Car Park 10:30 pm-2:30 pm 11 May
Electro-Acoustic Music Concert UST Quartet-in-Residence
Atrium, I pm 11 May Season of French Films
Red
KrzysztofKieslowski LTE, 7:30 pm
12May Erhu Recital Hsin Hsiao Ling Exposition Hall, l pm
18May
State of the University Report
President 九月voo
Citibank Lecture Theatre-(LTA)
4 pm 27 May-Payday
校園活動
詩與畫：張平的攝影世界 展期至 7 月15 日 圖書館畫廊 劉東男中音獨唱會 5 月 7 日晚上 8 時 展覽廳 牡丹亭驚夢示範講座 謝雪心 5 月 9 日下午二時半 展覽廳 跳蚤市場 5 月 9 日主午十時半至下午二時半 LG2 停車場 電聲四重奏音樂會 科大駐校回重奏 5 月 11 日下午一時 大堂 《藍自紅三部曲》之《紅》 ·5 月 11 日晚上士時半 E j賞識廳 辛小灣二胡演奏會 5 月 12 日下午一時 展覽龐 大學報告 校長吳家瑋教授 5 月 18 日下午四時 萬國寶通銀行﹔真誠星星（ LTA) 發工資日一一5 月 27 日+-GENESIS, 6 May 1998 －位置圓圓E:I曉軍﹒
校圖尋數學樂趣
五百多位穿著整齊校服的中三學生》在 4 月 4 日見童節來到科大校園 ，參加大學與香 港數理教育學會合辦的“數學遊蹤 1998 ” 。 他 們帶著圓規、直尺和量角器等工其，走遍進口 廣場和日暑、圖書賄、大堂、露天茶座、 餐廳 及本科生宿舍等地點，解決各式各樣的數學難 題。 籌備這次活動的香港數理教育學會表示 ， 雖然數學遊蹤設有多個獎項 ，但它並不是一項 數學比賽 ，而是一個數學遊戲活動﹔ 他們所設 計的數學難題，主要目的並不在於考驗同學計 算的能力 3 而是希望培養他們彈性地處理問題 的經驗。 同學經過兩小時的智力活動後，齊集萬國 寶通銀行演講廳和林護演講廳，參加數學系李 健賢博士的講座 3 講題為“解決數學問題的策 略，’。李博士以三道看似很難解決的數學問題為 例 2 向同學示範一些彈性處理問題的方法。講 座之後 ， 由理學院署理院長雷明德教授頒發獎 項。這坎活動的冠軍為賽馬會體藝中學 ，亞軍 和季軍分別是聖公會林護紀念中學和聖公會莫 壽增會督中學，另外有12 問中學獲頒優異獎。 這是香港數理教育學會第一伙在科大舉辦 數學遊蹤，反應非常熱烈，共有169 間中學（各 派三位同學）參加 。該會數學組召集人李文生 說： “科大校園除了設備先進外，還為我們提供 一個較安全的活動環境， 同學需要走過馬路的 機會不多。此外 ，科大數學系的教師和學生積 極地配合這吹活動，我們要向該系表示謝意。”優異生獲表揚
林長吳家瑋教授在 4 月 18 日設宴款待近二十 ·，＿＿...氏、名學業成績卓越的同學。他們的家長及敬 愛的老師 ，也出席了午宴，與有榮焉。 吳校長說． “有同學、家長及老師組成的鐵 三角 ，同學的前途無可限量。” 在今年即將畢業的二干多名本科畢業生 中 ，只有 24 位同學在過去兩年半總平均成績考 獲甲級 ，其中六人因事未能出席午宴。 修讀計算機工程學的林建鴻家在華灣麗城 / 花園 ，到科大得花上一個多小時。林太說． “路 途太遠，本想不來了，但又想見見建鴻的校長 及老師，也就來了 。”林太還有一個驚喜﹒ “我 不知道建鴻的抱負那麼大，想在畢業後自創專 業 ，開～家電子製造公司 。’，林建鴻解釋說， 因 為創業起碼是幾年之後的事，所以一直沒有跟 母親提起。 電機及電于工程學系陳永洲為留在香港陪 伴家人，放棄到美國賓夕凡尼亞大學當交換生 的機會。沒有家人的 支持，也就沒有甲級 成績的陳永甘︱︱。 陳永 洲說： “家人從不向 我施加壓力 ，他們只 是告訴我，學習對我 的前途很重要。每當 我的學業有進步時， 他們 總是為我高 興。’，5
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草草璽﹒畢業生成功就業
科圳年本科畢業生的數目為歷年之 冠 。 在這一千八百多名畢業生中， 98% 在去年底前已成功就業或繼續深造。 就業輔導中心向九七畢業生發出的就業 問卷調查結果顯示﹒ 86% 的畢業生已覓得全 職工作或自創事業 ，較前年增加了四個百分 點。商界（74%）依然為畢業生的首選，製造 及工業界（13%）與教育界（4%）攻之Q 工程、推銷及市場推廣和系統分析及 程式設計等行業繼續成為畢業生的熱門選 畢業生工作界別（例，97 年） 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 16 ~ 10%。
94 年 擇。 執教鞭的畢業生由第一屆（ 94 年） 的 只有 2% 的畢業生待業 ，未能找到合意 12% ，銳降至去年的 3%。 一 的工作 ，較前年徵跌一個百分點。在這3Z4°立 相較前年 ， 九七畢業生的受l時機會更 畢業生中， 21人曾獲聘書 ，但沒有接受。多
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