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Training
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Our training programme runs at some £5 million pa. focusses largely on science and technology courses and PhD training. We fund some
some 590 students pa under the Technical
Cooperation Training Programme (c £3.4 million), some 450 under
the Sino-British Friendship Scholarship Scheme (c £1.6 million),
and 10 under the Royal Fellowship Scheme (c £0.1 million).
administration.
7. We are in the process of sharpening the focus of our TCTP by
making it more project-based with more institutional focus. We are planning to commence insitutional development training projects with key Chinese institutions in management and public
These would involve a series of inputs
training, staff exchanges, study tours, summer-school, workshops,
seminars, books presentations to achieve clearly defined objectives. We will consider involving suitable Hong Kong academic institutions such as City Polytechnic and Hong Kong Polytechnic in these projects we have sounded out both Polys
and they are interested. Involvement of Hong King institutions
holds out the advantages of lower travel and subsistence costs, and language and cultural compatibility. It could also help in
a modest way to thicken up the relationship between Hong Kong and
the mainland. There are already links between some Hong Kong
academic institutions and Mainland universities. The Hong Kong
Government has a "China Fund" from which it provides financial support for academic links with China.
8. Since 1989, the TCTP has been funding up to 12 young Chinese lawyers each year to study in Britain. They are attached to British law practices and study commercial, accounting and
banking law. As part of this scheme, they are attached to Hong
Kong law firms before they return to China. We are also considering a project to strengthen the Chinese State Land
Administration using the Hong Kong branch of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
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