good local candidates but difficulty is being experienced in finding
a Principal Lecturer in Statistics. This was notified to TETOC in
Mr.Kam
June 1973 and the most recent advertisement was in July, 1974. suggested we advertised in the Bulletin/Journal of the Institute of
Statistics.
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(2) Nautical Studies Department HoD Mr. A.C. Bromfield
5. Mr. Bromfield, an apparent genial and urbane individual, was
pessimistic about the future of the Polytechnic, and personally
dissatisfied. He confirmed many of the grievances of the staff and
He was
the Staff Association, largely from his own experience. Among other things he complained of the failure to finalise the Conditions of
Service for the Polytechnic he said his own contract had been
changed four times in two years and was not valid in law.
critical about promises that conditions would be as near as possible
up to the standard of those for Government Service but in practice everything fell a long way short. He thought few of the staff would
renew their two year contracts.
6. The teaching staff of the Department was 19, about half of whom
were Chinese. As regards recruitment Mr. Bromfield envisaged no
problems. He had two vacancies for Lecturers in Seamanship and he
would be personally arranging circulation through the naval
resettlement authorities, a form of prospection which he said usually produced satisfactory results. Applications would be referred to
TETOC for normal action.
(3) Business Studies Department
7.
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HoD Mr. P. Haigh
Mr. Haigh's present staff consists of the following :
9
4
Chinese Americans
1
1
Indian
5 British
Japanese/American
One of the British, Mr. B.G.D. Cowley who had recently been recruited
through TETOC, had failed to settle down and resigned. It is to be
noted he had not shown up too well at his interview. Mr. Haigh said he was "highly delighted" with his other staff.
8.
In building up his complement Mr. Haigh's main concern was the
difficulty in filling a vacancy for a Principal Lecturer in Law.