Representative of Cultural Association I 文化聯會代表一 Kwong Wai Ting 鄺慧婷

In the past few decades, intake of non-local applicants to HKU has been increased. This

phenomenon has aroused much public attention and even criticism. In my view, there are

both advantages and disadvantages to have more non-local students in HKU. Advantages

include promoting multi-lingual and multi-cultural atmosphere to HKU students, broadening

local students’ horizons, as well as attracting more foreign students to contribute to HK

after graduation. From a practical point of view, it is normal for HKU, one of the

internationally well-known universities, to welcome non-local competent students. However,

the question falls on the limit of their successful applications. According to 2012 statistics,

20% of HKU students are non-local which is considerably high when compared with other

local universities but this ratio is within a normal level when compared with other

international counterparts. Therefore, I think that this limit is acceptable and instead of

neither increasing nor decreasing the limit of intake of non-local applicants, maintaining the

same level as what we have now may be a good resolution.