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Enrolment of postgraduate students in tertiary institutions
Following is a question by the Hon Ip Kwok-him and a written reply by the Secretary for Education and Manpower, Mr Joseph W P Wong, in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Question:
Reply:
Is the Government aware of:
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
Mr President,
(a)
whether the intakes of postgraduate students in various local tertiary institutions have reached the prescribed annual admission targets in the past three years;
the ratio between local and non-local postgraduate students in various tertiary institutions in each of the past three years, and the regions/countries where these non-local students have come from;
whether the University Grants Committee has any plan to relax the requirement that non-local students taking postgraduate courses should not exceed 20% of the total number of postgraduate students; if not, why not; and
whether the requirement that non-local postgraduate students should not exceed 20% of the total number of postgraduate students is consistent with the objective of developing the territory into an Asian education centre?
The target and actual enrolment, in full-time-equivalent (fte) terms, of research postgraduate (RPg) and taught postgraduate (TPg) students in the University Grants Committee (UGC)-funded institutions for the past three academic years were as follows -