Hong Kong universities’ non-local student quota can go beyond 40 per cent: minister

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Hong Kong’s eight public universities have the capacity to take in more non-local students and the quota can be raised further without undue delay, the city’s education minister has said, revealing some have already hit the 40 per cent threshold in the new academic year. Advertisement In an exclusive interview with the Post, Secretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin said the enrolment of non-local students studying undergraduate programmes at the public universities in the new academic year was already at nearly 30 per cent of local student places. Starting in the 2024-25 academic year, the government doubled non-local student admission...