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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong.It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as the University of Hong Kong in 1911.
In the early 1950s, it became apparent that there was a need for further education opportunities in Hong Kong. The findings of the Keswick Report (1952) and the Jennings-Logan Report (1953) provided recommendations to the British Hong Kong government to establish a new department aimed at providing adult-education programmes. [1]
Senior Scientist at University of Maryland, Deputy Director for Science, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Division: BSc (Mathematics and Physics) 1972, BSc Honors (Applied Mathematics) 1973
The Graduate Diploma in English and Hong Kong Law (GDEHKL) is a Hong Kong graduate diploma programme that allows students that did not take law as an undergraduate degree (i.e. "non-law students") to "convert" to law, before going onto a professional qualification course and ultimately legal training.
The university lends its name to HKU station, the main public transport access to the campus (and the Lung Fu Shan and Shek Tong Tsui neighbourhoods), opened on 28 December 2014. The Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine is situated 4.5 km [ clarification needed ] southwest of the main campus, in the Southern District near Sandy Bay and Pok Fu Lam .
Alphabetised List; Note 1: The Open University of Hong Kong was established and financed by the Hong Kong Government from 1989 to 1993. Since then, it has been self-financed but still receives some irregular subsidies and loans from the government.
After St. John's and Lugard Halls, Morrison Hall was the third men's hostel built for students. Like St. John's Hall, it was established by a religious body, the London Missionary Society, in 1913 and located on Hatton Road. Rev. Robert Morrison , after whom the hostel was named, came to China in the early nineteenth century.
The School of Professional and Continuing Education at the University of Hong Kong is responsible for the personnel management, admissions and financial affairs of Centennial College. Due to the chronic shortage of student enrollment, the college has fallen into financial difficulties and will stop enrolling students from September 2019.