London's City University plans to award an honorary master's degree to a Taiwanese student killed in the train derailment north of London, the school said yesterday.
Meanwhile, her friend and Taiwanese anchorwoman Liu Hai-juo (
The student, Lin Chia-hsin, 29, was among the seven people who died in the accident at Potters Bar station north of London.
Karen Hart, a spokeswoman for the university where Lin was studying communications policy, said the former employee of Taiwan's TVBS cable news network would have finished her degree later this year.
University vice chancellor David Rhind told Lin's parents at her funeral Wednesday that officials would give them her diploma, although she had not yet written her dissertation, Hart said.
Lin's classmates are also eager to honor her at their graduation ceremony in November or December, Hart said, adding that no decision had been made on the specific form such a memorial might take.
City University also plans to fund a scholarship in Lin's honor, Hart added.
Anchorwoman Liu Hai-juo has undergone four operations, two of them brain surgeries, and will probably undergo at least one more, said Phoebe Li at Phoenix Satellite Television, the Hong Kong broadcaster where Liu has worked for two years.
"Her family read messages and letters from Taiwan and Hong Kong from her friends and audience and Tanya had some reactions, like deeper breathing," she said, adding that Liu, who is in a British hospital, also showed slight reactions when family members moved her hands.
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