HONG KONG GOVERNMENT
NFORMATION SERVICES
DAILY INFORMATION
BULLETIN
Tuesday, May 20, 1969
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GOVERNMENT TO SET UP FOLYTECHNIC
Planning Committee Appointed To Advise And Make Proposals
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Government today announced that planning is soon to start on a
Polytechnic to provido post-socondary vocational education in technical and commercial subjects up to the standard of a pass degree or professional
qualification.
It is onvisaged that the Polytechnic will comprise the cxisting
Tochnical College in Hung Hom, suitably expanded and improvod, and a new sister institution, providing places for a total of 4,000 full-time and
20,000 part-timo students by 1974.
A Polytechnic Flanning Committoo has boon appointed to adviso Government on the site of a now collogo, the financing and staffing of the Polytechnic and the scope of the initial courses to be offered.
Its mombers aro:- Mr. P.Y. Tang, (Chairman), Mr. S.F. Bailoy,
Socrotary of the University Grants Committoo, Mr. H.J.C. Browno, Dr. S.Y. Chung, Mr. W.D. Grogg, Director of Education, or his raprosentative, Mr. C.P. Haddon-Cave, Doputy Financial Secretary, or his representative, Mr. J.N. Hondarson, Establishment Officer, or his representative, Dr. L. Kadoorio, Mr. J.J. Robson, Director of Public Works, or his roprosentativo, Mr. J.M. Rovilands, Principal
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