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CNAA has seen as of particular importance the participation throughout the exercise of the Hong Kong members nominated by the Director of Education, and wishes to acknowledge their invaluable assistance, without which CNAA would have experienced difficulty in coming to terms with the Hong Kong context.
In a number of respects, CNAA has found that its detailed investigations, while necessary for the comparability exercise, have led it beyond the strict limits of its terms of reference. It has sought and obtained the agreement of the Director of Education to go somewhat beyond those terms of reference in the conclusions set out in this report and the detailed analysis which supports them.
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GENERAL CONCLUSIONS.
BAPTIST COLLEGE
It is again stressed that the report is to be read as a whole and the general conclusions are intended to draw together the threads of the several subject appraisals. These general conclusions should be seen as being shaded by the conclusions in the individual reports so as to be either more or less significant in the various subject areas, and thus should not be taken out of context.
The Aims/Goals of the Courses
CNAA finds that the courses studied in Baptist College do not always display clear and consistent aims, and that the aims which they do have are worked out at a departmental level with little or no discussion in the College at large. Along whatever paths the courses have evolved, they tend to have emerged as pure and analytic, while lacking attention to applications; by contrast the courses in the Polytechnic are more applied. It seems that courses have developed in that way because there is a greater likelihood that teachers will be available to teach them. In Science and Engineering, where there is a need for major laboratory facilities, the courses have also been designed so that it is possible to teach them against a very slender laboratory back-up, even though the College realises that such a solution is less than an ideal one. However, this process of constrained course design has generally gone so far that it is doubtful in many cases whether the courses offered are sufficiently focussed on the needs of students entering employment in Hong Kong. If the main CNAA conclusions set out below should lead to government making major financial