In confidence
Financial forecast for Asia Pacific
All figures in £ million
Income
ODA agency
FCO agency
Other agency
Revenue
Government grants
Co
ex
su
19
1990/91
1991/92
1992/93
1993/94
Sł
Bi
ok
15
16
17
17
CI
6
6
6
6
te
3
4
4
4
E
13
15
16
17
in
22
20
19
18
SE
59
61
62
62
la
W
Total
Expenditure
ir
Staff and running costs
Ο
Asia Pacific
16
16
16
Staff and running costs UK
11
12
12
62
16
12
7
British Council programmes
7
6
6
6
C
Agency (rounded) Total
25
27
28
28
C
59
61
62
62
a
1
Table 4
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means that an active British programme in China remains important. Priorities thereafter lie with Japan and Indonesia: the former's economic power and political influence make it an important partner; the latter is a major political and economic force in ASEAN, and the Council's biggest source of Paid Educational Services (PES) business.
7.25 Resources allocated to the region were increased by over £1 million from 1989/90, most of this being increased government grant funds deployed in China, Japan and South Korea in line with plans described in CP2. Despite setbacks in China following the political repressions of the summer of 1989, these plans are almost all on target. Achievements include:
a new Regional Directorate for South China, based in Hong Kong
• 4 new English studies resource centres run jointly with Chinese partners
• British studies courses in Beijing and Canton for 50 students
• 20 new Anglo-Japanese co-financed collaborative projects in science research and 60 additional exploratory visits for future projects
• 30 science exchanges with South Korea, sponsored in part by British business. The main disappointment has been the slow start to the British studies project in Japan, where a long lead time has proved necessary in order to secure suitably senior British specialists.
7.26 In addition to these programmes, new initiatives will be undertaken in 1990/91 in key areas. Funding for higher education programmes
in Hong Kong, described in CP2, will be increased to £0.25 million for a more extensive programme that will establish British involvement, partnership and commitment before the handover to China in 1997. The need to reassure Hong Kong of Britain's commitment to its future has brought proposals for further initiatives in the education sector into the front line of planning. The Council will use £0.2 million from revenue and a further £0.5 million non- recurrently from the new money in 1990/91 rapidly to extend exchanges and ELT programmes. The target will be to double, by 1993/94, the number of inward visits to Britain over 1989/90 levels. In order to develop new academic links between Hong Kong and Britain and to introduce development programmes for younger professionals in business and management, the Council will seek additional recurrent funding from 1991/92. The Council is also considering other schemes with FCO. These include immersion ELT for trainee teachers and lecturers.
7.27 Regular Council activity in Hong Kong will continue in support of these ventures and to strengthen links that are threatened by political mistrust. A major reassessment of the Council's ELT effort in Hong Kong will take place in 1990. Interchange, arts work and promotion of the British higher education resource form the core of non-language teaching activity.
7.28 The Council's work in China is aimed at making Britain an active partner in China's development. Activity is 85% agency-funded;
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