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G.FO. Box 2790
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19 July 1988
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs
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(NAD ECO SEA EIB)
LAUG 1988
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London
Peking
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NEW ZEALAND COMMISSION
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Seoul Tokyo
Singapore
Office of Minister of
State
HONG KONG EDUCATION AND THE BRAIN DRAIN
Your memorandum of 8 July asks for elaboration on the point made by
Hon Willie Purves to Hon Jonathan Hunt when }) in Hong Kong last month about а link between the 1997 Brain Drain and shortcomings in tertiary education in the territo Our memorandum 25/3/1 of 7 June 1988 refers.
2 You ask whether these shortcomings will act as an impuda ment to Hong Kong competing successfully against Taiwan Korea as the NICs continue to advance into 'hi-tech' manuiac. turing and export; and about the implications of inadequate higher education for Hong Kong's future as a cohesive soly with sufficient culture and identity to remain stable the unchartered waters from 1997 onwards.
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Difficult questions. Since receiving Our
memora
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you will have had Our report 66/2/1 of 7 June cover.j copy of а detailed brief on 'The market in Hong Kou overseas education' prepared for the Market Development Board by Tradecom Hong Kong; and Our memorandum 92/1/1 of 12 Tuly on the 1997 Brain Drain generally and the implications of it for New Zealand's Business Immigration Policy in parti- cular. The Tradecom Hong Kong report is both comprehensive and instructive. It contains the factual information to support Purves' contention about the lack of quality upper- secondary and tertiary education in Hong Kong.
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In sum,
our response to your questions is that:
Hong Kong's senior secondary and has serious shortcomings;
tertiary education
difficult poly
Hong Kong is facing particularly
problems in education generally;
there is a link between educational problems and the Brain Drain;
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