Secretary for Education Eddie Ng will attend the founding ceremony of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau University Alliance in Guangzhou tomorrow.
Mr Ng, together with education officials from the Mainland and Macau, will address the ceremony at Sun Yat-sen University to witness the establishment of the alliance, which will comprise 26 higher education institutions from Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau.
The alliance will strengthen co-operation between the participating institutions in teaching, research and technology transfer, and student exchange.
Among the first batch of participating institutions, nine are from Hong Kong, 10 from Guangdong and seven from Macau.
The institutions from Hong Kong are City University, Baptist University, Lingnan University, Chinese University, Education University, Polytechnic University, the University of Science & Technology, Open University and the University of Hong Kong.
