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The whole section covering the set of courses in Business, including
Accounting concludes with the following recapitulation:-
"In spite of the resource constraints, members felt that in some ways the programmes offered in Economics and Secretarial
Management were at least comparable to those which they saw at the Polytechnic in terms of their broader objectives. The staff are a close knit group in those two departments, and if they could be retained would no doubt develop their research interests and improve still further the quality of their programmes. In Accountancy there is a problem of staffing and the course offered was not comparable in standard to those of the Polytechnic in terms of professional recognition. In Business Management the question rests on the ability to recruit the additional staff which are necessary and to reduce the range of specialisation proposed to the course.
[Appendix C, Section 9 (j)]
In Science, the key sections which define the position in regard to parity are as follows, but the full context is of considerable importance and reference is made to the sections in which these brief conclusions are further developed:-
"At present, the visiting party is unable to say that the standard of the Hong Kong Baptist College programmes in Science and Mathematics are comparable to those of the comparators in the Hong Kong Polytechnic. This is because of the resource differentials and difficulties in comparing objectives. However, the intentions of the programmes and the basis of confidence in the core of highly motivated staff are such that the visiting party has no doubt that they could not only be made comparable but could reach even higher levels."
"A pre-condition to achieving such goals is certainty that the excessive faculty staff turn-over at the Baptist College is remedied. Otherwise, not only will the visiting party s level of confidence become superceded by significant changes of staff,