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resources available to Baptist College, then such money should be seen as made available to sustain courses having aims which have been more thoroughly examined and agreed in and with the College, taking vocational needs more fully into account. CNAA has noted that course aims/goals are taken into account by the UPGC when courses in the Polytechnic are planned, and feels concerned that the Department of Education does not likewise have a comparable forum in which to consider comprehensively the aims/goals of courses which attract government funding. It is suggested that the Director of Education might consult with UPGC or CNAA as to how some monitoring of goals of courses attracting public funds could be carried out.
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4.2.1 Staff and Staff Salaries
The most serious of the problems faced by Baptist College is its inability to offer to the majority of staff who merit it salaries having parity or near parity with those offered in the Hong Kong Universities and the Polytechnic. As in any situation where there is a large staff, CNAA occasionally met individual members of staff who were not as competent or experienced as the needs of the courses required, but it has no reason to believe that such staff are greater in proportion at Baptist College than elsewhere: CNAA also detected in some instances misalignment in subject expertise which more competitive salaries should enable the College to correct. At this point in time, all the courses reviewed by CNAA suffer in varying degrees from the constraint of low remuneration and the individual reports take up this point in detail. In general, it is a very serious problem in all departments, and its repercussions lead to impoverishment of the education offered. The College must, if parity of standards with the Polytechnic is to be attained, be able to attract new staff appropiate to its needs and then retain them. It has many able and committed staff at present, although as indicated above, some have expertise which is not particularly well aligned to the courses as they are, and in some cases their expertise seems rather less well aligned to courses as they might be if they were to be aimed more clearly at the needs of Hong Kong: unless the problem of staff remuneration is solved quickly, the good staff which the College currently has in post will be unlikely to remain and consolidate what has often begun with promise. Certain of the courses which CNAA has considered will only attain parity with those in the Polytechnic if extra staff can be appointed, and more detail will be found in the several appendices. It is only on the basis of competitive salaries that the College has any real hopes