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The Hong Kong Government also has ambitious
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plans for the expansion of tertiary education.
are now more than 34,000 full-time equivalent places
in tertiary institutions, including 18,000 students
on degree courses
in five degree awarding
institutions, the Hong Kong and Chinese universities,
two polytechnics and the Hong Kong Baptist College.
Plans are well under way for a third university, the
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which
is expected to accept its first students in 1991,
well ahead of the original planned dated of 1994.
The project is being assisted by a donation of
HK$1,500 million from the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club
which will meet most of the capital cost of building
the university campus. By the mid-1990s, when the
new University will have enrolled its full initial
complement of students, there should be a total of
about 55,000 full-time equivalent places in higher
education in Hong Kong, or 75 per cent more than at
present. There should also be some 36,000 students
on degree courses, a doubling of present numbers.
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The Hong Kong Government has also decided
to set up a Planning Committee for the establishment
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