February 2, 2001

Hong Kong Professors Complain About Dozing Students; Japanese Flock to University-Entrance Exam

A faculty organization in Hong Kong has asked the local government to help do something about an epidemic of students' dozing off in classes.

The Federation of Higher Education Staff Associations, which comprises faculty groups from Hong Kong's nine universities, said this month that sleeping through lectures has become so widespread that a joint approach by government departments was called for. Some of the federation's members want official guidelines that

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