TNAG-1603-FCO40-2210-Future-of-Hong-Kong-annual-reports-to-Parliament-on-Hong-Kon-1987 — Page 119

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The Hong Kong Government also has ambitious

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plans for the expansion of tertiary education.

are now more than 34,000 full-time equivalent places

in tertiary institutions, including 18,000 students

on degree courses

in five degree awarding

institutions, the Hong Kong and Chinese universities,

two polytechnics and the Hong Kong Baptist College.

Plans are well under way for a third university, the

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which

is expected to accept its first students in 1991,

well ahead of the original planned dated of 1994.

The project is being assisted by a donation of

HK$1,500 million from the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club

which will meet most of the capital cost of building

the university campus. By the mid-1990s, when the

new University will have enrolled its full initial

complement of students, there should be a total of

about 55,000 full-time equivalent places in higher

education in Hong Kong, or 75 per cent more than at

present. There should also be some 36,000 students

on degree courses, a doubling of present numbers.

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The Hong Kong Government has also decided

to set up a Planning Committee for the establishment

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