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EDUCATION

Studies. It emphasises the application of knowledge and professional training, and maintains strong links with industry and employers.

HKUST, opened in 1991, awards bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in three schools: Science, Engineering, and Business and Management. A fourth school, Humanities and Social Science, offers graduate degrees and provides general education for all undergraduates.

HKU is Hong Kong's oldest tertiary institution. It was founded in 1911, continuing the work of a College of Medicine established in 1887, and has nine faculties: Architecture, Arts, Dentistry, Education, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Science, and Social Sciences, and the School of Business.

With a view to promoting life-long learning, six UGC-funded institutions have also set up their continuing and professional education units. They offer award-bearing and professional programmes, as well as short courses, on a self-financing basis.

The student enrolment, in full-time equivalent (fte) terms of the eight institutions in the 1998-99 academic year, was:

Student enrolment (fte) of UGC-funded programmes, 1998–99

Institution

Sub-degree

Taught Research Postgraduate Postgraduate

Total

Under- graduate

CityU

5 103

7 412

1 090

356

13 961

HKBU

4 031

245

118

4 394

LU

2 119

16

2 135

CUHK

9 244

1 274

1 054

11 572

HKIEd

4 932

110

25

5 067

PolyU

4 813

7 760

890

333

13 796

HKUST

5 655

566

683

6 904

HKU

9 192

1 972

1 047

12 211

Total

14 848

45 523

6 062

3 607

70 040

166

Note: Lingnan College was retitled Lingnan University (LU) on July 30, 1999. The Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK), established in 1989 as the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong, makes higher education available to all through a system of open access and distance education. It was granted self-accrediting status in 1996 and then university status in 1997. Since 1993-94, OUHK has become self- financing. In 1998-99, more than 25 000 students enrolled in the 44 degree and