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administrative and managerial category of the workforce
was about 14%. However, in more recent years, the
percentage has been
been much higher: from 1987-89 it was
around 24%. Such people make up less than 6% of Hong
Kong's population as a whole. Similarly the proportion of
emigrants with degree level education has increased from
12% to 15% over the same period: such people make up less
than 4% of the general population. While the Hong Kong
Government has major plans to expand tertiary education so
that the number of tertiary places rises from the present
38,000 to some 67,000 in 1995, an increase in the number
of newly qualified graduates cannot, in the short term,
compensate for the loss of experienced professionals,
technicians and managers.
7.
Over the past year, there has been a dramatic
increase in the
the numbers of applications for emigration
that have been received not only by the consulates of the
main emigration destinations, i.e. Canada, USA and
Australia, but also by countries not previously considered
likely emigration destinations. At the same time Her
Majesty's Government have come under intense pressure to
take steps to grant right of abode.
right of abode in Britain to all
British nationals in Hong Kong
indeed some have even
pressed for such a right to be granted to all Hong Kong
people.
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