The Government, the University of Hong Kong and five industry backers have revealed plans for a technology training centre at the controversial Cyberport development in Pokfulam.
The institute will be administered by the university's School of Professional and Continuing Education (Space), which plans to open the 25,000 square feet facility in summer next year.
The focus will be on developing post-graduate programmes for those with technical degrees who want to update their skills, and diploma and degree programmes for non-technical graduates who wish to enter the field.
Space offers similar courses at six other locations. The information technology (IT) programmes drew 7,000 students this academic year, while Space enrolled more than 100,000 students in all.
F.T. Chan, head of Space's IT division, said that corporate sponsors Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle would donate software and hardware and would confer with the institute's administrators on how the curriculum should be developed.
Mr Chan said: 'Our idea is that we will form an academic committee. Then we will develop course proposals which from our end will try to maintain all the academic strengths. And then we plan to invite their partnership to embed their certification process into different modules of the overall programme.'