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Chinese University seeks supremacy $10 billion, 10-year plan to make it the global centre for Chinese studies
6 February 2006
South China Morning Post
The Chinese University of Hong Kong has launched a $10 billion plan to boost its regional status and become a global centre for Chinese studies within 10 years.
University chiefs are aiming to build up to three new colleges at its Sha Tin campus to extend its collegiate structure as student numbers rise due to the switch to four-year degrees in 2012.
Vice-chancellor Lawrence Lau Juen-yee said CUHK expected to receive $4 billion from the University Grants Committee (UGC) through block grant and research funding and cash for new buildings to house students for a fourth year. "Besides using the funds from the government, we have to raise private funds of around $6 billion," he said.
"I am pretty confident that we will be able to reach the target. We hope that we can be the hub of education in East Asia and the first-choice university of the best students. And we wish to position CUHK as the centre for Chinese studies in the world.
"Many academics around the world come to us and we wish to continue to receive the best of these distinguished scholars. And we hope international students will think of Chinese University as their first stop for Chinese studies."
Professor Lau said the UGC would not provide funding for extra colleges at CUHK because other universities in Hong Kong did not have the collegiate structure. But he was determined to develop the college system, which ensured small classes and was a competitive advantage for CUHK.
"A college would probably take a couple of hundred million dollars at the minimum and that is not including the endowments," he said.
He also wanted to increase CUHK's intake of international students from the present 10 per cent to 25 per cent within 10 years and was pressing the government to raise the threshold.
The university will focus extra resources on five key fields - Chinese studies, biomedical sciences, information sciences, economics and finance, and geo-information and earth sciences - which build on existing strengths.
Double degrees and other new types of degrees will be launched, summer courses developed and exchange programmes expanded to provide an exchange opportunity to every interested student.
Last year, the University of Hong Kong launched a $10 billion six-year enhancement plan, aiming to raise $3.5 billion itself, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology launched a $1.9 billion 15-year plan.
6 February 2006
South China Morning Post
The Chinese University of Hong Kong has launched a $10 billion plan to boost its regional status and become a global centre for Chinese studies within 10 years.
University chiefs are aiming to build up to three new colleges at its Sha Tin campus to extend its collegiate structure as student numbers rise due to the switch to four-year degrees in 2012.
Vice-chancellor Lawrence Lau Juen-yee said CUHK expected to receive $4 billion from the University Grants Committee (UGC) through block grant and research funding and cash for new buildings to house students for a fourth year. "Besides using the funds from the government, we have to raise private funds of around $6 billion," he said.
"I am pretty confident that we will be able to reach the target. We hope that we can be the hub of education in East Asia and the first-choice university of the best students. And we wish to position CUHK as the centre for Chinese studies in the world.
"Many academics around the world come to us and we wish to continue to receive the best of these distinguished scholars. And we hope international students will think of Chinese University as their first stop for Chinese studies."
Professor Lau said the UGC would not provide funding for extra colleges at CUHK because other universities in Hong Kong did not have the collegiate structure. But he was determined to develop the college system, which ensured small classes and was a competitive advantage for CUHK.
"A college would probably take a couple of hundred million dollars at the minimum and that is not including the endowments," he said.
He also wanted to increase CUHK's intake of international students from the present 10 per cent to 25 per cent within 10 years and was pressing the government to raise the threshold.
The university will focus extra resources on five key fields - Chinese studies, biomedical sciences, information sciences, economics and finance, and geo-information and earth sciences - which build on existing strengths.
Double degrees and other new types of degrees will be launched, summer courses developed and exchange programmes expanded to provide an exchange opportunity to every interested student.
Last year, the University of Hong Kong launched a $10 billion six-year enhancement plan, aiming to raise $3.5 billion itself, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology launched a $1.9 billion 15-year plan.