Hong Kong institutions warned over mainland student quota breaches
Secretary for Education Christine Choi demands institutions rectify the situation or risk affecting their academic accreditation
Hong Kong’s education minister has warned self-financing post-secondary institutions against admitting more mainland Chinese students than their permitted quota as it could negatively affect their academic accreditation.
Christine Choi Yuk-lin issued the warning after statistics revealed that some institutions had a mainland student intake exceeding 60 per cent of their total enrolment, which is as much as six times the allowed limit.
Choi said warning letters had been sent out to offending institutions, demanding that they rectify the situation.
“We have also alerted the Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications and this will be taken into account when the council looks into the institutions’ academic and quality accreditation in its regular review,” she said in a television interview aired on Sunday.
But the government would adopt a pragmatic approach and grant the institutions in question time to correct the imbalance, she added.
“We have liaised with these institutions to understand the admission situation and have requested that they provide explanations and strictly adhere to the prevailing requirements,” Choi said.