"In response to some press reporting that the University Grants Committee (UGC) would reduce the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws (PCLL) places for the University of Hong Kong (HKU) by 30% starting from 2004/2005, the UGC Secretariat clarified that the number of UGC-funded PCLL places for HKU would be maintained at the same level in 2004/2005 as in 2003/04. The intake for PCLL for HKU in 2003/2004 approved in the context of the 2001-2004 triennial planning exercise is 117. Subject to the approval of the legislature on the recurrent grants for 2004/2005, the number of PCLL places for HKU will be maintained at 117 in 2004/2005.

We understand from the HKU that it has increased intake for PCLL programme from 117 to 170 in 2003/2004 using its own resources."

November 26, 2003