Chief Government
John Lee Ka-chiu has invited worldwide college students anxious about ending their programs at Harvard College within the US to proceed their research at considered one of Hong Kong’s universities. Different universities in Malaysia and Japan have put ahead comparable solutions.
This comes as Hong Kong is contemplating the best way to make finest use of the a part of the
Northern Metropolis reserved for
universities to bolster its function as
an training hub. That web site is on the coronary heart of our future expertise analysis and improvement space, and inside shouting distance of Shenzhen, China’s engineering and manufacturing powerhouse.
Lee’s invitation is a daring step in the appropriate route, however I recommend we take the chance to go even additional and advance the town’s increased training profile.
Hong Kong ought to attain out to Harvard and supply to make a web site accessible for an extra campus within the metropolis. The brand new facility may very well be referred to as Harvard Worldwide and admit all of the college’s worldwide college students and a big variety of American college students at anybody time, maybe on a revolving foundation.
The set off for these solutions is the
Trump administration’s extraordinary assault on the American establishment, extensively thought to be the most effective on the planet. The college has had its analysis grants cancelled and was informed its tax standing can be reconsidered whereas its potential to confess worldwide college students stays unsure.
We don’t want to contemplate the deserves of those assaults, and we must always observe that many are nonetheless topic to authorized challenges within the US. However the uncertainty they’ve created provides Hong Kong a gap.
