CONFIDENTIAL
For discussion
on 11 November 186
XCC (86)18033
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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
TUITION FEES AT THE UNIVERSITIES,
THE POLYTECHNICS AND THE HONG KONG BAPTIST COLLEGE
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INTRODUCTION
This memorandum reports the findings of a review current arrangements for setting tuition fee levels at the five higher education institutions funded through the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee (UPGC).
BACKGROUND
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When proposals on tuition fees to be charged in 1988-89 at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), the Hong Kong Polytechnic (HKP), the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong (CPHK) and the Hong Kong Baptist College (HKBC) were considered by this Council on 18 March 1986 (XCC(86)42) the Administration said that it would review the current arrangements for setting tuition fees at these five institutions. The aspects to be reviewed
were :-
(a) the requirement to make an annual declaration of fees four years in advance;
(b) the need to set target percentage fee income as a proportion of the recurrent costs of the institutions.
Having noted the Administration's intention to conduct a review, the Council advised and the Governor ordered that inter alia the review "should be completed within seven months and should examine the feasibility of differential pricing both as a means of encouraging students to take economically desirable courses and of recovering a greater proportion of the cost of providing the more expensive courses.' A review has since been conducted and its findings are reported in this memorandum.
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