Universities
Year of entry
1980 and before
1981
1982
1983
25
1980/81
1981/82
1982/83
1983/84
HKU
CUHK
HKU
CUHK
HKU
CUHK
HKU CUHK
$2,050 $2,050 $2,050 $2,280 $2,640 $2,510 $3,010 $2,740
$2,300 $2,280 $2,640 $2,510 #3,010 $2,740
$2,640 $2,510 $3,010 $2,740
$3,010 $2,740
Polytechnic
Year of entry
1980/81
1981/82
1982/83
1983/84
1980 and before
$1,000
$1,000
$1,000
$1,000
1981
$1,600
#1,900
#2,200
1982
$1,900
$2,200
1983
$2,200
5.46
It is also proposed in future to declare annually the level of fees
to be charged in four years' time. This will give students and their families
the opportunity to budget carefully for tertiary level courses, and they would
then be aware of the fees payable (in most cases) from the date of enrolment
up to the date of graduation. Students suffering from genuine hardship may
apply to the Student Finance Scheme for assistance. The level of assis-
tance will be automatically adjusted to take account of the increased fees.
The revised fees will constitute only a small proportion of the total
expenditure on tertiary education at present prices university fees in 1983-84,
for example, will result in the fee income from full-time university students
being less than 10 per cent of the projected recurrent expenditure on such
students: the new fees will also be less than the average student's first
month's salary on entering employment, even at current rates.
F: General comments
5.47 As the first table in paragraph 5.8 shows, there has been a
steady annual increase in gross government expenditure on education over a
period of years and the annual percentage increase has been particularly high since 1979 i.e. 25.1 per cent in 1979-80 and 38.9 per cent in 1980-81