The revised version of the government’s bill on the city’s tertiary education sector no longer requires institutions of higher learning to specify in their graduation certificates whether a student has obtained a taught degree or a research degree at master’s or doctoral level, the Legislative Assembly’s 2nd Standing Committee President Andrew Chan Chak Mo said yesterday.
In the initial version of the bill, the government proposed that graduation certificates issued by tertiary institutions must state that the student has obtained a taught degree or a research degree at master’s or doctoral level – meaning that tertiary institutions were to be given the right to offer taught degree programmes at master’s and doctoral levels.
Chan briefed reporters after a closed-door meeting of the committee, which no government officials attended, in the legislative chamber.
The legislature’s 2nd Standing Committee President Andrew Chan Chak Mo briefs reporters after the committee’s closed-door meeting about the tertiary education bill yesterday. Photo: Tony Wong
