For those of you who have been following this, it’s really scandalous that education in Hong Kong is so mired by deep, conflicted politics and these are the people educating us about our future?

reposted from the Papers:

An academic pressure group has called for the resignation of key members of the Hong Kong Institute of Education’s ruling council.
The University Education Concern Group was reacting to the council’s decisions on Monday not to retain institute president Paul Morris as a professor when his term ends in September and to order him to go on leave immediately.

The decision was made to enable the teacher training institute at Tai Po to "turn a new leaf", according to the council’s vice-chairman, Eddie Ng Hak-kim.

But the academic group said council officers, including its chairman and vice-chairman, should resign to let the institute "start afresh".

Responding to the group’s statement, Mr Ng said he hoped the institute would be left alone.

"We have a new beginning and I hope HKIEd will have the room to focus on promoting the blueprint for its future development," he said.

Mr Ng said the council’s decision had been made to allow HKIEd to start anew, and the new management team to take over as soon as possible.

But the academic group said it was "unfair" to shift blame for the HKIEd "incident" to Professor Morris, and unreasonable to place the president on premature leave, calling that decision "an act of revenge".

The group was referring to the commission of inquiry into allegations of government interference in the affairs of the institute and the freedom of its academics, which reported its findings last week.

Fanny Law Fan Chiu-fun, formerly the top education civil servant, resigned as ICAC commissioner after the inquiry found she had infringed the freedom of two academics by calling for their sacking.

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