HONG KONG: An open door to foreign students

Well-positioned in world university rankings, Hong Kong has an open-door policy towards international students. The Hong Kong government has invested HK$1 billion (US$128 million) in a bursary fund, with the interest to be used to fund scholarships for international students, writes Stephen Hoare for The Independent.

Institutions like the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Lingnan University, Hong Kong University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) compete at a world-class level.

Belgian Achill Van den Broek (27) is about to enter the final year of his three-year undergraduate degree in Chinese studies at the CUHK, which has around 3,800 international students from more than 40 countries. He is majoring in Chinese politics. "I was on my way back from Sydney to Europe from a working holiday when I decided to spend six months in Hong Kong," says Van den Broek. "People I met recommended Chinese University and I decided that if I wanted to study China, I would rather do it here. It's a degree that's only open to international students."
Full report on The Independent site