*1.
CONFIDENTIAL
EDUCATION BRANCH PROGRESS REPORT
-1 MAY 1982 TO 31 JULY 1982
Subject
Overall Review
of the System
Education
Purpose
To arrange for an overall review of the Hong Kong education system to be conducted by an independent panel of visitors, assisted by special advisers.
on
Progress made and present position
The Panel has received comments
their draft report. Panel will be submitting their final report in draft in August/September 82.
Next quarter
target
To circulate
the draft Report for comment when available.
*2.
Review of Tertiary Education
To prepare plans for the further development of tertiary education.
On 13 July 82 ExCo approved the universities' student number targets for 1984/85 and the 1985/88 triennium ExCo also
→
approved longer-term targets for provision of first-year first- degree places until 1994/95.
To implement ExCo's decisions.
3.
Hong
Kong
Students Overseas
To consider whether the scope of Government finance and other forms of assistance currently
available to H.K. students in overseas tertiary institutions should be extended given increased tuition fees in U.K.
& other Overseas insti-
tutions and how this should be brought about.
CONFIDENTIAL
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(a) On 6 June 1982 U. K s Overseas Students Trust (OST) published its report "A Policy For Overseas Students" proposing, inter alia, that H.K. students in British tertiary institutions should pay the home level of fee subject to satisfactory joint-funding arrangements being worked out by HMG & HKG. An ExCo memorandum has been prepared to seek ExCo's advice on a joint-funding scheme requiring equal contributions by HMG & HKG to provide eligible
students with subsidies tested basis.
on a means-
To seek ExCo's advice
the
on
joint-funding proposal.
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