University of Hong Kong drafts proposal to set up international campus in city’s new academic town near border with Shenzhen
- HKU plans to offer joint programmes with overseas institutions and take in more non-local students at hub, the Post learns
- New university town is aimed at getting ‘influential and prestigious institutions’ to set up operations, Undersecretary for Education Jeff Sze says
An institution supporting the set-up would admit more non-local students in the hub, the government said on Tuesday without naming the school. A source said the institution was the University of Hong Kong (HKU).
The hub will be part of the academic town included in the Northern Metropolis development proposed by the previous administration in 2021. The entire economic and housing project will cover 30,000 hectares (74,130 acres) in the New Territories, with the university town occupying about 60 hectares.
One proposal submitted for the new academic town’s operation was to set up an internationalised university campus “in a self-financing mode” to provide more joint programmes with well-known overseas institutions for local and outside students, the government earlier revealed.
“HKU is now consolidating our proposal that seeks to further support the government’s vision to build an international postsecondary education hub in the Northern Metropolis,” a university spokesman told the Post.
