Scholarships for the best minds

The Hong Kong Jockey Club launched a graduate scholarship program to support Hong Kong students to pursue master's or doctoral degrees at Tsinghua University and Peking University in Beijing.

The scholarship program, partnering with the Institute of Philanthropy, will support students in pursuing degrees at the two universities.

Forty scholarships will be awarded to each of the universities across five cohorts starting in the 2024/25 academic year.

The club said that CEO and director of the Institute of Philanthropy Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges will offer unique opportunities for top students.

The initiative "will help to promote greater academic exchange between Hong Kong and the mainland."

The universities' leaders reiterated that it would foster exchanges across various fields in the future.