The Education Bureau today announced that a land site at Man Lai Road in Tai Wai will be allocated to Saint Francis University (SFU) to develop a purpose-built campus for the operation of full-time locally accredited self-financing post-secondary programmes.
On the Committee on Self-financing Post-secondary Education’s (CSPE) recommendation, the Secretary for Education has decided that SFU should be earmarked as the prospective operator for the land site to be granted at a nominal premium.
Emphasising that the Government’s policy is to support the parallel development of the self-financing and publicly funded post-secondary education sectors, the Education Bureau said that in pursuance of the 2023 Policy Address, the allocation of the site will be conducive to the capacity expansion and quality enhancement of the self-financing sector.
This will enable the education sector to play a more proactive role in Hong Kong’s development into an international post-secondary education hub, the bureau added.
The Government invited applications from eligible institutions for a land grant scheme from December 2024 to March 2025 and received three applications.
The CSPE is responsible for giving advice to the Secretary for Education on the comparative merits of the applications, having regard to the applicants’ education and site development proposals following a fair and competitive process.
