The number of faculty members with the background of mainland China has increased by 35%in the past four years, while the number of local teachers in Hong Kong has decreased by 14%.Some scholars have analyzed that this is related to Hong Kong's political and social environment in recent years, and is worried that if local faculty members continue to lose, or affect the research and development of issues of Hong Kong issues.
According to the information reported by the Education Federation Committee of the University of Hong Kong earlier, it has been reported that the teachers with mainland background have increased from 1175 in the 2017/18 school year to 1592 in the 2021/22 school year.At the same time, the number of local teachers decreased from 2003 to 1722, while the number of teachers in other nationalities has not changed significantly.
It is reported that according to the proportion, the number of mainland scholars accounted for the overall teachers from 24.4%to 32%, while local teachers fell from 41.5%to 34.6%.Among them, the number of local teachers from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University decreased the most. During the five years, it decreased from 506 to 380, a decrease of 24.9%. During the same period, mainland teachers increased from 154 to 297.The number of local teachers at Lingnan University in Hong Kong also decreased by about 20 %.
Li Lifeng, a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, analyzed that in recent years, the social environment has led many overseas and local teachers to leave Hong Kong. On the other side, because many mainland students studying abroad, they naturallyMainland teachers who will hire more "returnees" background.
Ye Jianmin, a professor at the History Department of the University of Bristol University, who left Hong Kong earlier this month, said that many universities in Hong Kong have set up branches in the mainland in recent years.Essence
Cai Ziqiang, a senior lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Science of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, analyzed that the number and ratio of local teachers have fallen, reflecting that many scholars have left Hong Kong in recent years.He said that local faculty generally disappointed in the social atmosphere of Hong Kong and was worried that research would mistakenly touch the "red line" in the current political environment.
The assistant professor of the Department of Public and International Affairs of the City University of Hong Kong is a native of Shenzhen. He went to work in Hong Kong after graduating from a PhD in US five years ago.Wenbo reported to Ming that the mainland background teachers did not know enough about Hong Kong and local culture. They had no emotional connections. They rarely studied Hong Kong society. Therefore, local scholars played an important role in research issues in Hong Kong.
He said, "We, many of us, many people are only when Hong Kong is a job place, but just want to do their own research."
