Thursday, 29 March 2018 ()
Hong Kong’s oldest university is proposing changing its pay system that tracks civil service pay rises and cost-of-living adjustments to one based entirely on the individual performance of staff. But the head of a staff union at the University of Hong Kong has lashed out at the proposal as one that would encourage a culture of sycophancy and “shoe shining”, and possibly even affect the quality of research at the 107-year-old institution. The university is considering a more...