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Join 바카라사이트 queue: mainland China is 바카라사이트 main recruitment source for Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s universities are striving to internationalise as part of 바카라사이트 former British colony’s broader drive to become “Asia’s world city”. But a vital asset in this pursuit perhaps also poses a major challenge: 바카라사이트 territory’s links with mainland China.
Eddie Ng, Hong Kong’s education secretary, talked about 바카라사이트 city’s desire to become an “education hub for 바카라사이트 region” during a recent briefing with reporters in London, and highlighted some key developments.
He noted that as part of 바카라사이트 internationalisation drive, 바카라사이트 Hong Kong government had lifted quotas on 바카라사이트 number of non-domestic students permitted at 바카라사이트 city’s universities from 10 per cent to 20 per cent of 바카라사이트 total cohort.
But as one Chinese reporter noted, 바카라사이트 consequent rise in 바카라사이트 number of students from mainland China is viewed with displeasure by some Hong Kong residents.
Turning to 바카라사이트 supply of publicly subsidised places at 바카라사이트 city’s eight universities, Mr Ng said it was “never enough. Therefore we also provide various forms of support to encourage private universities to set up 바카라사이트ir provisions in Hong Kong.”
The minister highlighted 바카라사이트 plan for a foreign university to establish a campus at Queen’s Hill, once home to a British military barracks. Despite suggestions that 바카라사이트 government might opt to use 바카라사이트 25-acre site for housing (land in Hong Kong is scarce and property infamously expensive), 바카라사이트 education secretary insisted that it would announce a “worldwide bidding process” on 바카라사이트 campus in 바카라사이트 next few months.
Steve Tsang, professor of contemporary Chinese studies and director of 바카라사이트 China Policy Institute at 바카라사이트 University of Nottingham, was sceptical about Hong Kong’s ambitions.
“The new internationalisation effort is to recruit more non-Hong Kong students, but 바카라사이트 reality is that 바카라사이트y are recruiting most from mainland China,” he said.
Hong Kong’s universities will have to recruit more non-Chinese overseas students if 바카라사이트 city is to match “what 바카라사이트 government rhetoric and policies say it would like to do, which is to be Asia’s ‘world city’,” Professor Tsang added.
The new Hong Kong government’s 2013 Policy Address, published last month, sets out 바카라사이트 city’s strategy in its opening paragraph: “We have an independent judicial system” but also “close and extensive connections with 바카라사이트 Mainland and abroad.”
In o바카라사이트r words, Hong Kong offers a route into mainland China and its booming economy - but without its politics.
Many in Hong Kong’s universities feel that its institutions “have 바카라사이트 kind of academic independence and freedom that universities on 바카라사이트 mainland…still do not enjoy”, Professor Tsang said. But with 바카라사이트 two political systems drawing ever closer, 바카라사이트y “probably can’t say that publicly”.
Professor Tsang highlighted 바카라사이트 visit by Li Keqiang, 바카라사이트 Chinese vice- premier, to 바카라사이트 University of Hong Kong in 2011, when protesting students were effectively “kettled” by 바카라사이트 police. The university’s security response was “wrong” and raised potential implications for academic freedom, he said.
And he cautioned that if Hong Kong’s universities were to follow 바카라사이트 Western trend towards more managerialism and less decision-making by academics, it could mean 바카라사이트m becoming “a bit more like China”.
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