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1993/94

1994/95

1995/96

RPg target

2,217

2,746

2,995

RPg enrolment'

2,303

2,547

2,952

TPg target

3,742

4,219

4,558

TPg enrolment2

3.904

4,236

4,921

Note

(b)

I The slight under-enrolment of RPg students in 94/95 and 95/96 was due to difficulties encountered by some institutions in recruiting qualified local RPg students. The UGC considered such slight under-enrolment acceptable.

2

The TPg enrolment figures include the non-local students that institutions are permitted to enrol beyond their target.

Between 1993/94 and 1995/96, the UGC-funded institutions have been permitted to enrol 2% of non-local undergraduates (Ug) and TPg students beyond their target number of Ug and TPg and 20% of non- local RPg students within their target number of RPg. The ratio between local and non-local TPg and RPg students in the UGC-funded institutions in the past three academic years were as follows -

Local RPg: non-local RPg

1993/94 1994/95 1995/96

4.4:1

3.1:1

2.9:1

(% of non-local RPg students in relation (19.3%) (22.7%) (25.5%)

to target RPg number)

Local TPg: non-local TPg (% of non-local TPg students in relation to target TPg number)

57:1 52:1 (1.8%) (1.9%)

55:1 (2.0%)

There is a slight excess enrolment of non-local students in the RPg category. This is because the institutions may, in addition to the non- local RPg students enrolled within their approved student number targets, enrol additional non-local RPg students who are supported by the Earmarked Research Grants awarded by the Research Grants Council (RGC), by other public sources of funding such as the Industry and Technology Development Council's Applied Research and Development Scheme and the Co-operative Applied Research and Development Scheme, or by private funding agencies such as the Croucher Foundation and the Hong Kong Jockey Club.