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All students of HKU are given a free dial-up service. Due to obvious reason, a service quota equivalent to 450 connection hours are rendered to each registered student at the beginning of the academic year. The money value of $ 1,800 mentioned in the report is merely a notional value assigned as part of the budget quota accounting scheme. The so-called rate of $ 4 per hour is derived from the costs of facilities that are required for coping with the demand at the peak load period. In actual fact, no fee has ever been collected for this quota allocation. It merely enables students to have an idea of the value of the resource that they are using.
What is more important to remember is that students in all 8 UGC-funded institutions are being charged the same amount of tuition fees. Such fees seek to recover partly from the students the costs of their university education, including the use of campus facilities. There is no question of this University trying to charge separately, over and above what has been permitted by the government, for the provision of facilities, which are regarded as part of our mission and responsibility.
Sun Daily reported that HKU students are being charged separately for the use of online facilities – Statement
11 Sep 2001
The University of Hong Kong noted the report in today's Sun Daily that HKU students are being charged separately for the use of online facilities. The University believes that there is some misunderstanding and that for public interest some clarification is in order.
All students of HKU are given a free dial-up service. Due to obvious reason, a service quota equivalent to 450 connection hours are rendered to each registered student at the beginning of the academic year. The money value of $ 1,800 mentioned in the report is merely a notional value assigned as part of the budget quota accounting scheme. The so-called rate of $ 4 per hour is derived from the costs of facilities that are required for coping with the demand at the peak load period. In actual fact, no fee has ever been collected for this quota allocation. It merely enables students to have an idea of the value of the resource that they are using.
What is more important to remember is that students in all 8 UGC-funded institutions are being charged the same amount of tuition fees. Such fees seek to recover partly from the students the costs of their university education, including the use of campus facilities. There is no question of this University trying to charge separately, over and above what has been permitted by the government, for the provision of facilities, which are regarded as part of our mission and responsibility.
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