Academic Affairs Newsletter, No. 1/05

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Academic Affairs Newsletter Issue No. 1/05 Mar 2005 In This Issue RAE Academic Program News PGS ............................................................... 1 Planning for the 4-Year Degree .................... 2 UG Research Opportunities Program .......... 3 Academic Personnel News 4 Achievement Highlights 5 Teaching & Learning Teaching Information Management ............. 6 License Agreement (Course-Packs) signed with HKRRLS ................................... 8 Others Summer Program for High School Students 7 On the Light Side .......................................... 7

PGS for 2005/06 Announced The postgraduate studentship (PGS) rates for 2005/06 have been announced in early February. The Terms and Conditions of PGSs 2005/06 can be viewed and downloaded from the PG Studies homepage. University representatives agreed in the PG Administrative Circle meeting to maintain the PGS rate at $12,250 –+ 5% a month. The UST PGS rate for 2005/06 would be $12,500 for new intakes. Continuing students would be offered a rate of max $13,500 a month. Departments/Schools have the flexibility to offer variable monthly stipends (e.g. fractional PGS) within these caps.

Gear up for RAE 2006 The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) last conducted in 1999 is here again! An internal announcement was made recently via email to all faculty and units concerned about the forthcoming RAE 2006. A set of draft Guidance Notes for this exercise can be viewed at the UGC Website listed below: http://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/ugc/publication/prog/ rae/rae.htm. UGC will use the outcome of RAE 2006 to inform part of the research (R) portion of funding for the University in the block grant allocation exercise for the 2008-11 triennium. Nominations were invited from institutions for suitable personnel to be considered for appointment to sit on the subject panels whose main task is to evaluate the research output of academic staff. To help you visualize the entire sequence of events for RAE 2006, a tentative schedule is provided on the right for your easy reference. Enquiries or comments related to RAE 2006 can be directed to Vincent Cheung (aackc) or Katherine Wong (aakwong) of AAO. Before 18 March 2005: Institutions submit nominations of possible panelists. For the latter part of 2005, most likely in the last quarter: ? UGC runs workshops on RAE 2006 for staff involved in organizing and coordinating work. ? UGC may release the final RAE 2006 Guidance Notes. ? The University announces the internal action plan to academic cost centers, and conduct internal briefing sessions. For first quarter of 2006: ? December 2005 to January 2006 – Academic staff submit RAE items to heads/coordinators of academic cost centers. ? January 2006 – Heads/coordinators of academic cost centers conduct dry-run. ? February 2006 – Submission of materials to AAO. ? 1 March 2006 – Submission of academic staff lists for this Exercise to UGC. ? 31 March 2006 – Submission of materials to UGC. ? April to June 2006 – Clarification and additional information may be sought by UGC for submissions made. Printed on recycled paper

Planning for the 4-Year Degree at HKUST Planning for the introduction of the four-year university curriculum, due for implementation in 2011 or 2012, provides an opportunity for a new look at the undergraduate experience at HKUST. To launch discussion of the issues, all faculty were invited to a Forum on the Undergraduate Experience on 20 January 2005. Meanwhile, local universities have been asked by UGC to present their vision for the future of undergraduate education and for capital developments needed to accommodate larger numbers of students. Forum on the UG Experience Among the important questions discussed by the Forum were these: How can we develop a distinctive HKUST brand of undergraduate education that sets us apart from other universities in Hong Kong (and perhaps the world)? What kind of graduates do we want to produce? What are the attitudes, values, knowledge and skills we want them to take with them from their undergraduate experience with us? How can we structure their four-year sojourn at HKUST to achieve this? The Forum generated a lively and productive discussion of these issues, summarized in the notes available on-line at http://www.ust.hk/~webaa/AAnews/ forum.doc. A number of the ideas put forward related to enhancing and enriching the student experience. These included: taking advantage of the HKUST research culture by developing opportunities for undergraduates to participate in research; setting up residential colleges, where students might undertake community courses and engage themselves in community services; supplement our current program of sending students out for exchanges, by building an “international house” on campus and setting up non-academic programs for students from different countries to mingle with each other; and Developing organized and structured extra-curricular activities to complement the curriculum with time spent in a more effective and meaningful manner. Regarding the curriculum and its structure, it was suggested that Schools offer more inter-disciplinary programs, or modify/construct programs so students may undertake studies for a double major. There was general support for a highly flexible curriculum, in which students would have room to choose their courses and activities. It would be desirable that students not be asked to declare their major in their first year of study. Instead, students could be admitted to a common first year of studies at the School level. However, it was also suggested that for those who know clearly where their aptitude and interests lie, there should be flexibility to admit them directly into their desired program in the first year. Many felt that we should strive to deliver a unique, new undergraduate experience that is not available elsewhere. The new curriculum should aim at producing graduates who, in addition to having a deep disciplinary knowledge, have mastered a broad spectrum of knowledge across disciplines, and are equipped with employability skills and attributes preferred by employers. These students will be bright and articulate leaders, able to learn on their own, creative, innovative, analytical and visionary.

Response to UGC on the Four-Year Degree While it is still early days for the University to make decisions about the curriculum and academic arrangements for the four-year degree, the ambitious ideas proposed at the Forum and the meetings of the “334 Task Group” appointed by the Vice-President for Academic Affairs to develop proposals for the four year degree have begun to shape vision for the four year degree at HKUST. In response to UGC’s invitation to present its thinking on the issue, HKUST expressed its determination to take the opportunity presented by the four-year time-frame to provide a more flexible and more open undergraduate academic experience, and a more rounded education preparing students for successful professional careers. UGC has also asked the universities to review the current balance of undergraduate and research postgraduate student numbers. HKUST indicated that it would prefer to increase research student numbers to achieve a ratio of research students to undergraduates, and to academic staff, closer to international benchmarks for research universities. Plans were also presented for capital developments to accommodate larger student numbers. A 25% increase in the undergraduate student population across Hong Kong is equivalent to the construction of an entire new university. Development of new buildings and extensions to buildings will therefore be a major feature of the implementation of the four-year degree.

March 2005, AA Newsletter 3 U R O P Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program You may have read from page 2 of this Newsletter that at the Forum on the Undergraduate Experience, it was suggested that we take advantage of the HKUST research culture by developing opportunities for undergraduates to participate in research. We are putting this idea into action. The UG Research Opportunities Program (UROP) will be in place in the coming summer. UROP is a program that aims to develop a research culture at HKUST at the undergraduate level. It is designed to give UG students the opportunity to work closely with faculty members and to participate in research, scholarly or creative activities. Students may conduct their research projects in a semester and register for credit. Alternatively, they may join UROP in summer for studentship. We need faculty support to supervise UROP projects and to encourage the undergraduates to take part in the program. UROP, Summer 2005 ELIGIBILITY All Year-1 and Year-2 UG students with an interest in research are eligible to apply for joining the Summer 2005 UROP program. The approval for non-local applicants to join the UROP program will be subject to approval by the HKSAR Immigration Department. UROP PROJECT PERIOD The summer 2005 UROP projects are expected to last for about and up to 8 weeks within the summer session. The UROP project can be part of an on-going project. STUDENT EXPECTATIONS In the Summer Session, students will participate in UROP projects for studentship and no credit will be awarded. UROP participants are expected to put in a full-time effort on the project throughout the UROP project period. Participants are also expected to meet with the Faculty Supervisor regularly to discuss the progress of the research project. A final report on the project, with the Faculty Supervisor’s endorsement, is to be submitted to the School UG Office in September. In addition, participants will be asked to complete a program evaluation at the end of the UROP program.

STUDENTSHIP LEVEL UROP participants will receive studentship of $1,000/week from the University. Each participant is normally expected to be engaged full-time in the research work. The research work hours may vary as the project or the Faculty Supervisor requires. For students with outstanding academic performance and/ or projects that require exceptionally intensive involvements, the Department/Faculty Supervisor may consider topping up the studentship if funding is available. The maximum total studentship per week is $2,000, inclusive of studentships from different sources. APPLICATION PROCEDURES Interested students should check from UROP website, in early April, the list of faculty members who are willing to serve as Faculty Supervisor in the Summer 2005 UROP program and their respective research areas. They are to discuss with individual faculty members to develop a viable project idea. The UROP work does not need to be within the students’ major field of study. A student may submit an application after obtaining the agreement from a faculty to be the UROP Faculty Supervisor. The application deadline is 30 April 2005. SELECTION FACTORS Quality of the proposed project Demonstration of research interest, clear goals to achieve and a well thought out work plan Commitment of support from a faculty supervisor Academic performance EXPERIENCE SHARING ON UG RESEARCH Science students who were awarded the Suzuki Caf�m Scholarships to take part in UG Research in Fall 2004/05 will be sharing their experiences with fellow students. The arrangements are as follows: Poster 4-9 April 2005 Exhibition: Chia-Wei Woo Academic Concourse (outside LT-A) Presentation 3:30-5:00 pm, 12 April 2005 by selected Cheung On Tak Lecture Theater participants: (LT-E) Printed on recycled paper

ACADEMIC PERSONNEL NEWS Substantiations and Promotions Peng LI (BIOL) and Ophelia TSUI (PHYS) have been substantiated and promoted to Associate Professor on 1 January 2005. Substantiation Lionel NI, professor of COMP, has been granted substantiation upon his successful completion of the academic review in Spring 2004. Appointments Regular Faculty Members on Board (between 1 September 2004 to 31 January 2005) School of Business and Management Jiahua CHE, Assistant Professor, ECON (PhD, Stanford University) School of Humanities and Social Science Yun Chung CHEN, Assistant Professor, SOSC (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) Visiting Faculty Members on Board (between 1 September 2004 to 31 January 2005) School of Science Wai Ming LI, Visiting Assistant Professor, BIOL (PhD, University of British Columbia) Grafton Wai How HUI, Visiting Scholar, MATH (Professor Emeritus, HKUST ) (PhD, University of Southampton; DSc, University of Southampton) Shouzhu ZHANG, Visiting Scholar, PHYS (PhD, University of Science and Technology of China) School of Engineering Ze-Nian LI, Visiting Scholar, COMP (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Tongwen CHEN, Visiting Professor, ELEC (PhD, University of Toronto) Sven Bertil AXSATER, Visiting Scholar, IEEM (Doctorate, Linkoping Institute of Technology) Xiuli CHAO, Visiting Professor, IEEM (PhD, Columbia University) School of Business and Management Guoqiang TIAN, Visiting Professor, ECON (PhD, University of Minnesota) Arkadev CHATTERJEA, Visiting Scholar, FINA (PhD, Cornell University) Ling Zhi ZHOU, Visiting Assistant Professor, ISMT (PhD, Rutgers University) John Walter PRACEJUS, Visiting Associate Professor, MARK (PhD, University of Florida) Cristel Antonia Julia RUSSELL, Visiting Associate Professor, MARK (PhD, University of Arizona) Marshall Warner MEYER, Visiting Scholar, MGTO (PhD, University of Chicago) School of Humanities and Social Science Kit Yee CHAN, Visiting Assistant Professor, HUMA (PhD, CUHK) Wing Hoi CHAN, Visiting Assistant Professor, HUMA (PhD, Yale University) Kenny Kwok Kwan NG, Visiting Assistant Professor, HUMA (PhD, Harvard University) Raymond Sin Kwok WONG, Visiting Scholar, SOSC (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Administrative Appointments Office of Vice-President for Academic Affairs David MOLE – appointed Associate Vice-President for Academic Affairs, with effect from 1 March 2005, succeeding Professor Peter DOBSON, upon his retirement. Peter N DOBSON, Jr – appointed Senior Advisor to the Vice-President for Academic Affairs on a part-time consultancy basis. School of Science Xiaoyuan LI – appointed Head of Chemistry, concurrent with his appointment as Professor of Chemistry, with effect from 1 January 2005. Jian-Shu LI – appointed Acting Head of Mathematics, concurrent with his appointment as Professor of Mathematics, with effect from 14 September 2004. School of Engineering Tongxi YU – reappointed Head of Mechanical Engineering, concurrent with his appointment as Professor of Mechanical Engineering, with effect from 15 January 2005. School of Humanities and Social Science Alvin Y SO – reappointed Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Science, concurrent with his appointment as Professor of Social Science, with effect from 1 January 2005. Yiu Ming FUNG – appointed Acting Head of Humanities, concurrent with his appointment as Professor of Humanities, during the period from 1 January 2005 to 30 June 2005 when Prof Karl Kao, the substantive head, is on sabbatical leave. Adjunct Faculty Appointments (between 1 September 2004 to 31 January 2005) School of Engineering Wenwu ZHU, Adjunct Associate Professor, ELEC (PhD, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn) Shujun CAI, Adjunct Assistant Professor , ELEC (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) School of Business and Management Krishnan ARJUNAN, Adjunct Associate Professor, ACCT (PhD, University of Dundee) (Visiting Scholar, ACCT, HKUST) Geng XIAO, Adjunct Associate Professor, ECON (PhD, University of California, Los Angeles) Angela Lai Ping NG, Adjunct Associate Professor, FINA (PhD, Stanford University) (Visiting Scholar, FINA, HKUST) Charles Arthur BRIAN-BOYS, Adjunct Assistant Professor, MARK (EMBA, Kellogg Northwestern-HKUST) March 2005, AA Newsletter 5

Achievement Highlights HKUST has been ranked the world’s number 20th university for Engineering and Information Technology by The Times Higher Education Supplement. The Kellogg-HKUST EMBA program has risen to No.6 in the world on the Financial Times worldwide EMBA rankings - up from its No.9 ranking in the last survey in 2003. Described by the Financial Times as “one of Asia’s youngest but most respected business schools”, HKUST is the only school in the Asia Pacific listed among the top ten. Our Business School is placed No. 25 in a worldwide ranking of business school research. The researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas studied the research contributions of business schools based on their publications in 22 leading business journals in the period between 2000-2005. HKUST was the only Asian Pacific school that hit the top-50 list. The HKUST Business School’s full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) is ranked No.44 in the world. It places 20th in the world for its research strength and, for the fifth consecutive year, ranks first for the international experience its MBA offers. The program also achieves an impressive eighth place for the career progress of its graduates. Prof Lionel Ni (Computer Science), Prof Zikang Tang (Physics) and Prof Mingjie Zhang (Biochemistry) have been appointed Overseas Experts by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof Nancy Ip (Biochemistry) has been elected into the Fellowship of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World in November 2004. This is a recognition of her outstanding contribution to science and promotion in the developing world. In addition, Prof Ip has been presented with the “Most influential Chinese Women of the Year” award by “China Women” magazine in February 2005. Each year the magazine selects the 10 most influential Chinese women (both inside & outside the Chinese Mainland) for this award. Prof Hannah Xue (Biochemistry) and Prof Maria Li Lung (Biology) have been selected for the award of the Croucher Senior Research Fellowships for 2005- 06. This Fellowships scheme recognizes research achievements made by local scientists. Prof Hongjun Lu in the Department of Computer Science was recently honored with this year’s PAKDD Distinguished Contribution Award, established by the Pacific-Asia Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference, a leading conferences in this area. Sadly, Prof Lu is no longer with us. Prof Charles Ng (Civil Engineering) has been elected Overseas Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge in 2004. Prof Xiren Cao (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) has been appointed Chair of the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee of the IEEE Control Systems Society for 2005. Prof Hoi Sing Kwok (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), has been elected a Fellow of the Society for Information Display. The appointment recognizes his contributions to the development of liquid crystal on silicon microdisplays and related optical systems, and for the development of bistable twisted nematic liquid crystal displays. Prof Vidhal Goyal (Finance) won second prize in the Jensen Prizes for papers on corporate finance and organizations, which he co-authored with Prof Murray Z Frank of the University of British Columbia. Their paper was titled “Testing the pecking order theory of capital structure”. Prof Yeung Lewis Chan (Finance) won second prize in the Fama/DFA Prizes for papers on capital markets and asset pricing. He co-authored a paper on “A multivariate model of strategic allocation” with Prof John Y Campbell and Prof Luis M Viceira, both of Harvard University. Dr Hoi Lee (2004 PhD graduate, ELEC) and Wing Lun Ng (MPhil student, ELEC) presented their innovative integrated circuits design technology in February 2005 at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (“Chip Olympics”). So far, HKUST is the only university from Hong Kong being invited to appear at this international event. Wan Chi Kin (MPhil graduate, Civil Engineering) received Young Engineer’s Award at the Third China-Japan-Korea Joint Symposium in Japan in November 2004. Jin Xing (PhD, Computer Science) received Second Prize of the Project Show For Future Engineers, a concurrent event of the World Engineer Congress (WEC) 2004, with his project “Mobile E-credit Card System”. The team of four Year-3 business students – Wai Ying Fung, Derek Lee, Winnie Lui and Chi-Wai Ng – joined the Thammasat Undergraduate Business Challenge in Bangkok and were required to formulate a strategy for a car part company. They made it to the semi-finals and were placed first runner-up, behind Thammasat University. Ka Chung Chan (MARK) and Ho Yin Chiu (ISMT) won the first and second places in the 2004-05 China-Hong Kong Investment Simulation Competition. Printed on recycled paper

HANDY TOOLS for Teaching Information Management Did you ever spend half an hour searching for a past course evaluation report or a PowerPoint presentation you urgently needed to use in a lecture? With funding from UGC, CELT has developed online applications which are specially designed to help you organize all your digital documents and information. Thanks to Web technology, very soon you will no longer find it necessary to keep track of all your course evaluation reports because they will all be archived in a secure online location called “Cabinet”, including all of your new course evaluation reports. You can also deposit your teaching materials in the Cabinet which you can access any time anywhere you have Internet access; you can also share them with anyone of your choice, both inside and outside HKUST. With all your teaching-related resources and information assembled in one location, you are actually not far away from creating your own teaching portfolio. The “Teaching Portfolio” online application is a specialized online tool developed by CELT to allow you to make use of the materials kept in your Cabinet to build your own teaching portfolio using pre-defined templates. Besides the Cabinet and Teaching Portfolio, there are other features too that are part of this UGC funded teaching information management environment; all aimed at supporting the work of teaching staff in HKUST. All these online services will be delivered through “MyPortal”, a soon to be launched University Portal built by ITSC (details of which can be found at http://my.ust.hk/ ). Make it your browser home page and get quick access to teaching related information, as well as a wide range of HKUST resources and services. March 2005, AA Newsletter 7

On the light side –Peter N Dobson Retired... Sort of After 5,737 days (about 15.7 years) as an employee of HKUST, I formally retired effective 1 March 2005. Well, sort of, since I am still working part-time with the cool new title of Senior Adviser to the Vice- President for Academic Affairs. At least I thought it was cool until I noticed the similarity to my other title of Senior Citizen. The former pays better, but being a senior citizen has its perks, too. My green Octopus card lets me ride the MTR at the same rate as school kids, and I get to ride the Star Ferry free. By the way, for those friends who have told me I don’t really look this old – nice try, but not once have the eagle-eyed attendants at the Star Ferry gates asked me for proof of age. Furthermore, the customer service counter at the MTR station handed over a senior citizen Octopus card with no more than a glance to confirm that I was a member in good standing of the Over-the-Hill Gang. I’m beginning to wonder if the hours spent in the stylist’s chair getting my hair colored are really worth it. Oh well, at least I save enough on transportation and half-priced concert tickets to pay for it. As the time approached, the question everyone asked me was “what are you going to do when you retire?” The best thing about the arrangement to continue part-time was that it gave me a better answer than “What part of ‘retire’ do you not understand?” Most UST folks have absorbed the Hong Kong culture wherein life is work and work is life. How many times have you heard someone mention an acquaintance (deceased) who stopped working and then died? The implication being that, as long as you keep working, you won’t die. Well, in a trivial sense that is true, since few of the departed are employed – except perhaps as registered voters in Seattle. Anyway, I guess I am safe for another year. This is probably not even my last On the Light Side column, if the editor, who is saddled with the task of assembling this Newsletter, has her way. In the meantime, I find my days are so pleasantly full of just doing stuff of no great consequence that I haven’t had much time to get started on fulfilling any long-standing personal ambitions. I’ve barely even had time to reflect on what an amazing fifteen-plus years it has been, being associated with all of you who helped create the university whose success we share. Of course, it has only been a little over a week since I retired, and I suppose I’ll get around to these things eventually. But it already seems quite normal to get up without an alarm going off, to dawdle over breakfast, to give the dogs their head on our twice daily walks, and to mull over which day of the week will be the best bet for golf. The two days per week that I plan to go to campus already loom as a bit of a distraction from a life of leisure that, so far, is the very opposite of boring.

Summer School for High School Students from around the World We are now accepting applications for the first Summer@UST program to be held from 17 July to 5 August. It is an intensive and challenging program for high-caliber senior high school students from across the world. The program also includes an optional three-day study tour to Southern China from 5-7 August. It is part of our long-term efforts in recruiting international UG students. We will bring in non-local students from different places, hoping that at the end of the program, they will have a clear idea about college life and academics at HKUST. Those who are impressed will be our ambassadors to spread good words about our university in their home town. Summer School for High School Students from Around the World On the academic side, we have the support from the four Schools and the Language Center in offering tailor-made credit-bearing course for students of the summer program. Students will choose one course from the following list: The Science of Water, Air and Weather Exploring Internet Multimedia Building an Engineering Career in Enterprises and Startups A Short Introduction to the World of Business China in Film: Screening Modern Chinese Society and Culture In addition, they will choose one of three language courses: Creative English, Speak Chinese, or Fun Cantonese. Apart from academic activities, they will be involved in many active learning activities, take tours of local museums and firms and participate in team-building exercises. Please help make this exciting program known to your friends as well. Information about the program is available at www.ust.hk/summer. On the Light Side – Peter N Dobson Printed on recycled paper

License Agreement (Course-Packs) signed with HKRRLS

As an academic institution that itself produces intellectual property, the University stresses respect for, and protection of, intellectual property rights. One important area where the University is a user of intellectual property is the reproduction of copyright materials for courses – so called course-packs. In the past, academic staff producing course-packs needed to locate the copyright owner and gain permission for use. This is not always easy, and has led to less use of reproduced material than is desirable for effective student learning. To assist in opening up the use of course-packs, local universities, including HKUST have signed a license agreement with the Hong Kong Reprographic Rights Licensing Society Limited (HKRRLS). The agreement provides a standard process for approving and paying for the duplication of materials licensed by HKRRLS for the preparation of course-packs – in effect most of the copyright materials that HKUST staff are likely to use in their classes. The Agreement will take effect on 1 April 2005 for one year and nine months, and will cover all our work, including course-packs produced by the HKUST College of Lifelong Learning and other executive education arms. In compiling a course-pack that includes licensed materials covered under this Agreement, the instructor can obtain an authorization to use the copyrighted materials through HKRRLS by providing some basic details of the materials to be reproduced. Instructors are asked to provide a list of the HKRRLS licensed materials used in their course-pack, the name of the author and publisher, the title, the ISBN/ISSN/ ISMN, and the edition and publication year. An in house online system is being developed by the Publishing Technology Center to make it easy to send in these details, along with the request for course pack copying. The system should have been rolled out when this newsletter is published. Under the agreement, the following restrictions have been established: Copies of the licensed materials should be made and used only for giving instruction or to distribute to students for teaching, learning, discussion, or classroom use. Copies of the licensed materials can only be made on the initiative of an instructor, and copying should be done on the premises of HKUST, or by an organization authorized by HKRRLS. No more than one course-pack should be made for each course. Course-packs should not include: copies of extracts from more than 30 works copies of more than one complete article of any length from each issue of a newspaper, journal, or periodical in any one academic year – copies of more than 10%, or a chapter, of licensed materials (whichever is smaller) in any one academic year However, written requests to HKRRLS can be made for copies in excess of the stated limits. A standard copyright page should be exhibited on the first page of every course-pack. A license fee must be paid to HKRRLS for the use of copyright materials. The on-line system will provide data to help the Finance Office to recover the fees and transmit payment to HKRRLS. One important exception to the requirement to gain permission from HKRRLS for use of copyright materials is that, under the “Guidelines” issued by the Intellectual Properties Department, if the time between the instructor’s decision to use these materials and the proposed time of their use in classroom is 3 working days or less, the instructor may not be required to obtain permission for the copying. Here are some useful web links for browsing: Full texts of the Agreement signed with HKRRLS: http ://www.ust. hk/vpaao/announcements/ HKRRLS_Agreement.pdf Guidelines for Photocopying of Printed Works by Not-for-profit Educational Establishment – issued by the Intellectual Properties Department: http://www.ipd.gov.hk/eng/copyright.htm This agreement although a small step forward is not the end of the story. The issues relating to the use of copyright materials for teaching on the web have yet to be resolved. In the longer run resolving these issues will be far more important to the future of higher education than the printing and distribution of hard copy.