By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-10-22 07:03:47 | Updated at 2024-10-22 09:25:10
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Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu has pledged to work with mainland Chinese authorities to crack down on education consultants that forged documents for candidates seeking admission into local universities.
The city leader maintained that authorities would severely combat such acts of furnishing false information as these would undermine his administration’s policy to strengthen Hong Kong’s position as a tertiary education hub.
“There are situations where intermediaries make unscrupulous attempts to make money,” Lee said on Tuesday before a weekly meeting of the Executive Council, the government’s decision-making body.
“If our law enforcement agencies knew about these situations, they would definitely crack down and work with mainland agencies to crack down on these illegal activities. But I believe that most of them are law-abiding.”
Lee shared about a new “Study in Hong Kong” campaign, a key initiative in last week’s policy address, aimed at promoting the city as a global tertiary education hub.
He said Hong Kong was very attractive in terms of quality university education, especially in the Middle East countries and other nations along the Belt and Road Initiative. But Lee added that law enforcement agencies would act on violations and that institutions were responsible for flagging suspicious cases.
