Should Hong Kong rethink its higher education plans?

By Roger Y Chao Jr. Additional financial resources and capacity have been allocated by the Hong Kong government to support the restructuring of higher education into the 3-3-4 model – three years of junior and senior secondary respectively and four years of bachelor study.
This was done to accommodate the double cohort, where two batches of first-year university students start simultaneously as a result of the shift to the new four-year bachelor programmes, which started this academic year.
However, what will happen after the double cohort ends in school year 2014-15? Will funding continue to flow into the university sector? With the normalisation of the university student cohort in 2015-16, what should the sector do with the capacity built to accommodate the double cohort? Read more...