University calls for government funds for shared sites in Northern Metropolis
Hong Kong authorities should shoulder a larger share of the cost of facilities jointly used by institutions at the Northern Metropolis university towns, a varsity president has said, while calling for dedicated research funding to encourage collaboration among campuses. Professor Stephen Cheung Yan-leung, president of the private Saint Francis University, said that while individual institutions…
The president of Saint Francis University, Professor Stephen Cheung Yan-leung, has called for the Hong Kong government to contribute more towards the cost of facilities shared among institutions in the Northern Metropolis university towns. Cheung believes that while individual universities can finance their own campuses, the government should shoulder a larger share of the expense for shared infrastructure such as research and student entrepreneurship centres.
He further urged the government to establish research funds that universities could jointly apply for, encouraging collaboration among campuses and between universities and technology companies. This comes in the wake of the government's announcement that institutions seeking sites in the planned university towns would receive favourable consideration if they did not require public loans to build their campuses.
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