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Mr Role
EQUIPMENT FOR TECHNICAL INSTITUTES
PROBLEM
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Hong Kong
The Governor of Hong Kong In his telegram No 175 Find Trench
March proposed that the grant of £400,000 towards the cost of providing equipment for Hong Kong techical
institutes should be announced without mentioning any
particular number of institutes, and that the grant
should be applied over an unspecified period, at the
rate of £100,000 per institution as and when individual
projects are to be approved as part of the public
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works programme, in Hong Kong. We now need
What reply we should send to the Governer.
to consider
ARGUMENT
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With regard to the eventual announcement of the
counceme grant, the Governor has already informed us that only,
t one instiute of the four proposed by the Industrial Training Advisory Committee has so far been considered
by the Hong Kong Government. An announcement that four were planned would therefore at this stage be premature
Both the ODA and the DTI have expressed their
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agreent to the Governor's proposal to apply the grant
over an unspecified period, but the latter have stressa
that this should be on condition that the grant is
given specifically for technical institutes, and not
for technical education generally, and that it is
applied strictly at the rate of £100,000
per
/institution