布政司署 教育統籌科
香港下亞厘展道
RE
THE 24/10
HK FLOSAS.
mislove.
10
EDUCATION AND MANPOWER BRANCH GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT,
Lower Albert Road. Hong Kong.
*WR OUR REF.:
(96) in EMB CR 2/26/2041/66 II
來函檔號 YOUR REF:
Mr Michael J Long
Head of the Overseas Student
Policy Section
Cultural Relations Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office London SW1A 2AH
21 October 1991
Dear me. Long,
fourth
Now
UK/HK Scholarship Scheme
that the UK/HK Scholarship Scheme is in its 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 1939 and to improve its operation.
I enclose
a
Scholarship Committee
experiencing
fund whilst
and 1996/97.
short position paper by the UK/HK on the administration of the scheme, from which you will see that the Scholarship Committee is some difficulty in maximising the use of the maintaining a steady number of new awards Although the most undesirable which no new awards could be made in 1993-94 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 а rather trivial
between now
situation in
and 1996-97
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
fund during a period in which the UK university fees alone have increased by some 30%, I believe the time has come 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