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The British Council
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Morris,
Kong Dept.,
Promoting cultural, educational
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John,
THE
BRITISH COUNCIL/HONG KONG
POST 1997
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25 July 1991
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At our recent meeting with Peter Holmes, CRD, it was agreed that I should write to you explaining, a ter consultation with our Legal Adviser, what we consider we need in order to operate.
ACTIVITIES
The British Council's overriding priority is to be able to continue to offer post 1997 the full range of services it currently provides in Hong 'ong.
Currently, these are dominated by a surplus-generating English teaching operation for individual and corporate clients (of our 1991/92 budget of
early £7m for Hong Kong over £4m is derived from revenue, most of which is earned by the English classes). Other important activities include an Iducational Counseling Service for students seeking to study in Britain, in arts programme partly dependent on commercial sponsorship, a library (which charges membership fees), as well as a full range of exchange
rogrammes, academic links, and English language projects largely funded
rough the HMG grant.
'hilst post 1997 some services such as Educational Counselling might be xpected to decline we would hope to have the option of expanding those, hich might include English language classes, where demand might increase.
ny arrangements that did not allow us to continue our surplus generating nglish Language classes would severely restrict the impact we could make ost 1997 and would therefore be most undesirable. However, we accept that
y surplus generated might have to be spent on activity within the SAR.
'EMISES
e British Council would like to offer these services in the proposed nsulate-General complex and space for it is included in the submission to e Land Commission. However, if this was not possible we could continue