Stance: Negative
Opinions:
HKU has been admitting non-local students for over a decade since 1999. Despite the
University’s efforts in promoting an internationalised environment in the campus, many
members of the society have been dissatisfied with the increasing intake of non-local
students. Some of them suggest that the admission quota of local universities should be
reserved to local students as the university is subsidised by the taxpayers in Hong Kong.
However, they might as well have neglected the benefits brought about by non-local students.
As a local student, I must say that my university life would have been totally different were
there not non-local students in the university.
Firstly, mainland and overseas students who are admitted to HKU are often elites in their own
countries due to the scarce places available to them. They can offer positive competition in
academic aspect. Some of the local students even find them as a target to fight for. Since the
number of admission per application for non-local students (~4%) is still far behind that of
local students (~20%), there is still a room to further increase the intake of non-local students
to further improve the academic standards of the university.
Moreover, the cultural exchange between local and non-local students is very valuable to us.
The university is basically the first time in the life for many students to have daily interaction
with students with other cultural backgrounds. Through communication and spending time
together, students can effectively broaden their horizons.
However, these benefits could only be further achieved if there could be a plethora of
international students from all over the world, instead of focusing or having more of a certain
group of students, i.e. mainland students in the current situation.
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