PERSONAL RESTRICTED
GOVERNMENT HOUSE
HONG KONG.
26th July 1969
127
Dear Bunny
In view of the interest Lord Shepherd shewed in technical education when he was here, I thought a word on how the Polytechnic was progressing might be of interest.
The short answer is, not all that well. Executive Council approved a paper giving an outline of our proposals for another College, complementary to the existing one, under a semi- autonomous Board of some kind with commerce and industry strongly represented, and with slightly higher levels of courses at one end of the scale while lower-level courses were hived off into the new Technical Institutes. The whole might, we thought, be called a Polytechnic and provision would be included for other teaching institutions gradually to be added to the Polytechnic under the wing of the Board as and when found desirable. This, of course, is only a brief outline.
We set up a Planning Committee under P.Y. Tang as Chairman and including Lawrence Kadoorie, S.Y. Chung and John Browne plus the appropriate officials. We asked them as a priority matter to select a site, so we could get on with some of the building preliminaries while the Planning Committee dealt with the detail of courses and so on.
P.Y. Tang produced an ambitiously rapid programme for the Committee, but the Committee
W.S. Carter Esq., CVO
REF.
NEXI
(22