Newsletter No. 5

CUHK Newsletter been appointed a member of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine Preparatory Committee by HE the Governor. * Prof. Joseph C. K. Lee, professor of anatomical and cellular pathology, has been appointed a member of the Advisory Council on AIDS by HE the Governor for a term of three years from 1st March 1990. * Prof. T. B. Lin, head of New Asia College and professor of economics, has been invited by the Asian Research Service to continue to serve as editor of the Journal of Economics and International Relations. * Prof. S. W. Tam, head of Chung Chi College, dean of the Graduate School and professor of chemistry, has been invited by the Open Learning Institute to serve as a member of its Advisory Peer Group - Environmental Studies. * Dr. Shaw Pang-chui, lecturer in biochemistry, has been invited by the Genesys Ltd. to serve as a member of its Scientific Advisory Committee. * Dr. Daniel P. Law and Dr. Victor Chan, lecturers in music, were invited by the Hong Kong School Music and Speech Association to be adjudicators far the 42nd Hong Kong Schools Music Festival held between 26th February and 17th March 1990. * Dr. Victor Chan, lecturer in music, was invited by the Hong Kong Music Office and RTHK to be a juror of the 1989 Hong Kong Young Musicians, Award. He has also served as the adjudicator for the 1989 annual music competition of the GrathamCollege of Education. Dr. Chan has been elected honorary secretary of the British Council Scholars Association for 1990. * Mr. Yung Yuk Yu, assistant audio-visual officer of the University Instructional Media Services, has been invited by the Education Department's Visual Education Section to hold two repeated in-service training courses on ‘Creative Use of Camcorder - Basic Expressive Techniques in Making Instructional Videos' for 300 secondary school teachers in February and March 1990. * Mr. Kelvin K. W. Liu, lecturer in surgery, has been elected a member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and of the Pacific Association of Paediatric Surgeons. * Dr. Leo P. K. Yam, lecturer in education, was awarded the 1990 Robert deKieffer International Fellowship by the Educational Communications and Technology Foundation, USA on 2nd February 1990 in recognition of his‘outstanding contributions as an international leader in the field of educational communications and technology*. * Dr. Tuan Chyau, chairman of the Department of Operations and System Management, has been invited to serve as executive editor of Journal ofAsian Economics, an international journal published by JAI and The American Committee on Asian Economic Studies. Dr. Tuan has also been invited to serve on the International Editorial Board of Total Quality Management’ an international journal published by Carfax Pub. Co. of UK * Dr. Wong Chung-kwong, senior lecturer in psychiatry, has been appointed an honorary consultant of psychiatry at the United Christian Hospital far 1990. Dr. Wong has also been invited to be a member of the executive committee, the Society for the Aid and Rehabilitation of Drug Abusers for 1990. * Dr. Serena Jin, senior lecturer of the Department of Translation, has been elected president of the Translation Society of Hong Kong for a term of two years from 24th March 1990. (All information in this column is provided by the Information Office.) ANNOUNCEMENTS * The Staff/Student Centres Management Commi t t ee announces that the University Swimming Pool will re-open on Sunday, 15th April 1990. The pool is open seven days a week including public holidays. Opening hours are from 10.30 a.m. to 630 p.m., with a half-hour break from 2.00 to 2.30 p.m. Admission charges have been revised as follows: Students $ 4.00 Staff and immediate family members over 18 $ 7.00 Immediate family members aged 18 or under $ 4.00 Alumni (after payment of annual subscription) $ 7.00 Alumni annual subscription fee $150.00 Accompanied guests $ 20.00 Re-issue of membership card (staff family members & alumni) $ 12.00 From 1st April, staff dependants may apply for new swimming pool admission cards at the Office of Student Affairs, Room 108, Benjamin Franklin Centre. Each applicant has to bring along one photo and the staff l/D card concerned. Applicants under 18 are required to produce copies of birth certificates for inspection. * The Consulate General of the Arab Republic of Egypt recently announced that effective from March 1990, all foreigners entering the Arab Republic of Egypt to undertake education or training courses held in schools and other education institutions for more than one month are required to take AIDS tests conducted by recognized medical centres in Egypt. *********************************** * Overseas Education Allowance Rates of Overseas Education Allowance (Boarding School Allowance) payable to eligible staff members with children studying in UK, USA, and the Republic of Ireland have been revised in accordance with a similar revision by the government with retroactive effect from the Autumn term of 1989. Payment calculated on the basis of the old rates will be adjusted accordingly and arrangements for appropriate reimbursement will be made by the Bursar's Office to the staff members concerned. 9