Higher education should stay at the forefront of a society's development.
Over the 1998-2001 triennium, the UGC continued to work closely with
the Administration and the institutions in this respect, actively responding
to the changing needs of Hong Kong and building a learning community
for the city.
The massive expansion in Hong Kong's tertiary education in the early
1990s saw a significant increase in the number of first-year-first-degree
(FYFD) and postgraduate places. Since 1995, the higher education sector
has entered a stage of consolidation and the overall FYFD targets approved
by the Government remained at the then level during the triennium under
review.