Hong Kong will be faced with a glut of university places by the year 2003, a study says.
Education experts also say there is a lack of communication between schools and universities.
Conducted between February and August last year by a team from the University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Institute of Education, the Preparation of Students For Tertiary Education study was commissioned by the University Grants Committee.
It concludes there is a need to review the policy on supply of higher education places.
The report says the present 14,500 places a year will be too many by the year 2003 if the same entry standards are maintained.
'The tertiary institutions have already been complaining about the declining quality of matriculants,' it says.
'Any proposals to further lower the threshold requirements are not likely to gain much support. If over-supply is not seen as favourable, then something needs to be done about the supply policy.' Professor Cheng Kai-ming, outgoing Dean of the education faculty at the University of Hong Kong, chaired the study.
