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THE STANDING OF THE REPORT
CNAA now has pleasure in presenting its report. This report has formal standing as a report of the Council through powers which the Council itself has delegated to the newly formed Hong Kong Sub-Committee of its Committee for Academic Policy. The report has been prepared on the understanding that it will be considered as a whole taken together with its appendices, and care should be taken that parts of it are not quoted out of context.
THE PERCEPTION BY CNAA OF THE TASK COVERED BY THE CNAA/HONG KONG AGREEMENT
CNAA has seen its task as consisting essentially of the following contributory processes.
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Agreement with the Director of Education as to the choice of comparator courses in the Polytechnic.
Familiarisation with the courses in the
Polytechnic and the staff and other resource support for them, thus putting CNAA in a position to appraise the educational
experience of the students as a basis for the comparison exercise.
Steps by which CNAA could become aware of the Polytechnic infrastructure within which the comparator courses are operated.
A detailed course by course appraisal of the specified courses in Baptist College and Lingnan College, taking in both the parts of 2-2-1 courses being operated in 1980-1981 and the projected later years to be offered in 1981-82 and 1982-83; also taking into account, as appropriate, the courses being phased out. The CNAA appraisal was to be limited to years. 3, 4 and 5 of the newly structured courses merely taking note as required of years 1 and
2.
Appraisal of Baptist College as an institution offering advanced courses which it wished to establish as comparable to courses in the Polytechnic in conformity with the White Paper. In this regard, it was envisaged that the CNAA appraisal would cover all matters contextual to the courses.
A similar institutional appraisal of Lingnan College.