Response to inaccurate news reports
Dear colleagues, students and alumni,
It has come to our attention that recent news reports in Apple Daily concerning the results of CityU’s QS world university rankings have not been accurate. We strongly object to it and would like to present the following facts to correct these gross inaccuracies:-
Every year CityU submits data on student numbers for that year to QS for evaluation in accordance with QS’s rules, criteria and definitions. We have never used enrollment numbers of our summer students for submission to the QS exercise.
QS conducts a vigorous audit of all university submissions every year, including CityU’s submissions. QS audited all the data, including information on student numbers, submitted by CityU in early spring of this year in accordance with regular practice. In addition, QS rankings are also regularly audited by an independent international audit body. CityU’s data submissions were confirmed to be accurate by QS based on QS’s own audit.
Due to the use of different definitions and operating modes, data on student numbers submitted by all Hong Kong universities have always varied and are inevitably different from those submitted to the UGC. Such differences are commonly found in the data submitted to QS by other universities from other parts of the world and in the data on official websites of those universities’ home governments.
President Way Kuo has already instructed the relevant office to commission one of the Big Four accounting firms to run an independent audit of our QS data submissions and to report to the University. This additional measure will fulfil CityU’s requirement for ultra-high standards in all our operations.
Communications and Public Relations Office 13 November 2017
就報章失實報道的回應
各位同事、同學及校友:
我們注意到蘋果日報最近有關城大QS世界大學排名結果的報導並不正確,城大對此表示強烈不滿,並希望提出以下事實來糾正這些嚴重錯誤:
香港城市大學(城大)每年均按照QS世界大學排名榜的要求和指引,呈交該學年的學生人數,城大從來不以暑假期間的在學人數作為該學年的申報學生人數。
QS每年均會對所有大學提交的數據(包括城大在内),作嚴格審核;就以今年為例,城大提交的全部數據,包括學生人數,QS按慣例在首季進行了嚴格審核,並定期由獨立專業機構對所呈交數據進行覆查。QS的審查亦確認城大所呈交的數據無誤。
由於定義不同,院校運作模式也不一樣,香港各所大學提交有關學生人數的數據,均與按教資會要求呈交的數據有差異。香港以外的其它世界大學所呈交的數據也有類似差異。
郭位校長已經指示大學有關單位,把所有提交給QS排名評核的數據,再交由本港四大會計師行其中一間,作獨立審查並提交報告,以符合城大要求的超高行事標準。
傳訊及公關處 2017年11月13日
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