Hong Kong wants to attract foreigners to its shores Campus
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Sep-06-2010
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Hong Kong wants to attract foreigners to its shores Campus
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In an old courthouse here, the cells were converted into offices and adapted a room in a conference room. Unusual changes are part of the Savannah College of Art and Design at the judiciary in Northern Kowloon first campus in Asia, which is open for students to turn in September.
Though the building in 1960 in an area where land prices are among the most expensive in the world, Savannah College paid the government the equivalent of 13 cents, or Hong Kong dollars, followed by a 10-year lease.
The affordable real estate is part of the efforts of the Government of Hong Kong to China in turn into a global hub for higher education. Although the case of the Savannah is a little unusual, as is the restoration of a historic building in Hong Kong offer cheap land and other incentives for foreign colleges and universities attract to its shores.
Hong Kong Education Bureau said that education must have a passport "world."
Under these changes, the laws of visas have been, so that foreigners entering Hong Kong and then reduced to one year after graduation. And the limits of the quota of foreign students at public colleges rose 20 percent to 10 percent.
But perhaps the most ambitious is offering in Hong Kong Land for attracting new branch campus.
Savannah College is the first to prove that the opening of the market, but not the first American institution to offer degree or a campus in Hong Kong opens. Upper Iowa University, for example, has opened a website nine years ago. Savannah College of Hong Kong is something wrong, but the Hong Kong office is looking for development partners to get to historic buildings and the school has a contract to restore justice won.
The University is investing 250 million HK dollars, or 32.1 million U.S. dollars in Hong Kong on site, including the HK $ 100,000,000 or $ 12,900,000., Paid restoration building.
Hong Kong is the campus of the new branch to the peculiarities of the court to receive including cells, rows of state-owned banks, the witness, and the spring of prisoners. The iron bars on cell doors and toilets prisoner of the white tiles must be preserved.
Financial benefits come with their local status. Hong Kong registered schools are eligible for credit institutions in Article-10-year interest-free funds for business development, improvement of existing universities and individual projects. Recent changes to the rules easier to qualify for private schools.
In addition, candidates for local students from accredited universities for a grant of 1 billion HK dollars, or $ 128.6 million U.S. dollars U.S., the scholarship fund.
"If you go through SCAD local accreditation it will be good for them because the fees are very high," for local students, "says Wong. Savannah American charges HK $ 28,000 or $ 217.835 per year.
Opportunity Grants and the available land and other incentives, probably means that Savannah will be joined by other foreign institutions. Queen's Hill site, for example in Hong Kong for education is to measure the amount of interest throughout the world.
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