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In addition there are at the moment other students at the College attending courses at lower levels. From 1970 onwards these lower level courses will be held at the Morrison Hill Technical Institute so that the capacity of the Technical College for post-secondary courses will be increased and it will be possible for the student enrolment to be raised to 2,000 full time, 500 day release and 10,000 evening students. The Director of Education already has plans aimed to expand to these figures at the Technical College after the lower level courses have been hived off to the Technical Institute.
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Although this will represent a useful contribution to the number of full time students receiving higher vocational education, it is clearly not enough to meet the need, especially as there is only limited scope for expansion of the Technical College on the present site. By about 1980 it is estimated there will be a need for at least as many full time students receiving higher vocational education as there are University students and it is envisaged that by 1980 the University student population might be 10,000. A University student population. for 1973/74 of 6,000 students has already been agreed so that it seems that the number of higher vocational students should be developed from 2,000 towards a goal of 6,000-10,000 by 1980, with an initial target of 4,000 for 1974.
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The figure of 4,000 students can only be met by an additional new institution even after allowing for the full development of the Technical College. The intention is to provide this new institution and it would seem to be reasonable for the existing Technical College and the new sister institution to be combined and be called a "Polytechnic". It is intended that some of the upper level courses at the Technical College will be developed up to the professional or lower degree level, and that the new institution will provide a similar, though not identical, range of courses. A flexible approach is needed on the question of the courses to be offered by each constituent college of the Polytechnic. As far as possible duplication would be avoided but some overlapping might in practice be desirable: much would depend on the extent to which the site of the Technical College at Hung Hom could be further developed and on the choice of site for the proposed sister college. The Polytechnic and its constituent colleges should probably have a certain degree of independence, although perhaps not as much as the Universities: and these institutional arrangements will need to be carefully studied. The provisional view is that the constituent colleges should operate under the control of a single Polytechnic Board set up by statute.
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