Bulletin Number Five 1984

News in Brief Standing Patent Committee A Standing Patent Committee was established on 1st August, 1984 w ith the following terms o f reference: (1) To recommend to the Administrative and Planning Committee (AAPC) and to review from time to time guidelines for the handling o f existing and potential inventions by staff mem bers o f the University. (2) To ensure proper dissemination o f University policy on patents to members o f the University. (3) To help and advise staff on patents and to assist in the filing thereof and in related matters. (4) To supervise the administration (including financial administration) o f all matters related to patents in accordance w ith the established guidelines. (5) To submit a report to AAPC upon termination o f activities w ith regard to each invention or discovery brought to its attention, and such other reports as it deems necessary to AAPC from time to time. The membership o f the Committee is as follows: Chairman: Professor T.C. Chen (appointed by the Vice- Chancellor for a term o f two years) Members: Professor S.W. Tam (appointed by the Vice- Chancellor for a term o f two years) Professor J.E. Gardiner (representing the Dean o f Faculty o f Medicine) Professor Y.W. Lam (Dean o f Faculty o f Science) Mr. D.A. Gilkes (Bursar) Secretary: Mr. Laubie L i (Secretary, Science Centre Management Committee) Work-study Programme in Electronics Revised The Senate has approved the revised Five-year Work- study Programme in Electronics, to be implemented as from 1985. Under the revised programme, students after sitting their Part I Degree Examination w ill receive industrial training for a continuous period o f fifteen months (from June to August o f the following year). A t the end o f this period students w ill return to the University to complete their fifth year. New Graduate Programmes The Graduate School w ill launch the following programmes in 1985-86: (a) PhD Programme in Chemistry; (b) PhD Programme in Mathematics; and (c) MPhil and PhD Programmes in Clinical and Pathological Science. New Chairman o f the Advisory Committee on Electronics Mr. M.G. Gale, Managing Director o f Cable and Wireless Ltd., has been invited to serve as Chairman o f the University's Advisory Committee on Electronics. He is to succeed Mr. F .L. Walker ， Managing Director o f the Hong Kong Telephone Co ., who, after four years o f service on the Committee, w ill resign at the end o f the year upon his retirement from the Hong Kong Telephone Co. New Members o f the Appointments Board The following have been invited to serve as ex-officio members o f the Appointments Board: Mr. Michael Leung, Director o f Education, to serve from November 1984 to July 1986, succeeding the Hon. C.H. Haye, who took up his new office as Commissioner o f the Hong Kong Government Office in London on 25th November. Mr. Heung Shu Fai, Vice-President o f Arral and Partners Ltd., who succeeded Mr. Lau Sai Yung as Chairman o f the University's Federation o f Alumni Associations. Civil Service Career Exhibition 1984 The 1984 Civil Service Career Exhibition was held at the Sir Run Run Shaw Hall on 1st and 2nd November. Twenty-four Government departments and units took part in the Exhibition, which was opened by the Hon. E.P. Ho, Secretary for Commerce, Mr. J.M. Rowlands, Secretary for the Civil Service and the Hon. W.C.L . Brown, Chairman o f the University's Appointments Board on 1st November. Professorial Inaugural Lecture Professor Lin Tzong-biau, Professor o f Economics, gave his Inaugural Lecture, ‘Can Econometric Fore casting Models Survive the Challenges?', on 7th December. F irst Conference o f Hong Kong Educational Research Association The founding ceremony and the first annual confer ence o f The Hong Kong Educational Research Association, which is an independent academic body, were held at the University's Sir Run Run Shaw Hall NEWS 13