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21 October 1991
Mr Michael J Long
Head of the Overseas Student
Policy Section
Cultural Relations Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH
Dear Me Long,
UK/HK Scholarship Scheme
Now that the UK/HK Scholarship Scheme is in its fourth year of operation, I have taken an opportunity to review the work of the Scholarship Committee, and as a result, would like to explore the possibility of increasing contributions to meet inflation in university fees since the inception of the scheme in 1999 and
improve its operation.
enclose a
short position paper by the UK/HK Scholarship Committee on the administration of the scheme, from which you will see that the Scholarship Committee is experiencing some difficulty in maximising the use of the maintaining a steady number of new awards and 1996/97. Although the most undesirable which no new awards could be made in 1993-94 and 1996-97 could be avoided by issuing fewer awards in the other years, I think that an average of fewer than, say, nine or ten new awards a year runs the danger of making the UK/HK scholarship scheme seem perhaps a rather trivial
fund whilst between now situation in
initiative.
In view of the significance we attach to nurturing UK/HK links, and of the fact that there has been no review of the level of the fund during a period in which the UK university fees alone have increased by some 30%, I believe the time has
to look at the possibility of additional funding.
As you will see from paragraphs 10 and 11 of the attached paper, there might be two different ways of funding the increase. I would, however, favour the second option in which a total additional contribution of £200,000 a year