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(Appendix E, Sections 23.1, 23.2 and 23.3.
'These
views are further developed in sections 23.4 and 23.5 of the same Appendix).
Ongoing Involvement of CNAA with Courses in Business, Engineering and Science
It is clear that the Education Department and the Baptist College will wish to reflect on the nature of the reservations expressed in the report concerning the comparability of the courses with specified comparators in the Polytechnic, and may wish to propose steps to the CNAA with a view to bringing these courses to full comparability (cf section 7 of the Agreement). CNAA confirms its continuing readiness to participate in further work to this end.
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5.2
GENERAL CONCLUSION - LINGNAN COLLEGE
In the case of Lingnan, the CNAA appraisal was somewhat less in scope, in that the College is small and it only operates in the fields of Arts, Business and Music; its offerings in Music are currently very small in scale. The whole College is probably close to the minimum viable size for a College claiming to operate at the post-secondary level. While there is a major investment in buildings at Lingnan, there is very little investment in other facilities. Allowing for those members of the staff who expect to stay only a very short time, the whole staff team is certainly not a major teaching resource at present; for example, very few of the staff have significant experience and almost none display the qualities of leadership needed to carry the College forward. CNAA was only asked to make comparisons for a
The single field of study, namely Business Studies. report on this field of study at Appendix F is comprehensive and has its own conclusions, and it is not therefore necessary at this point in the report to draw together the common threads from a number of separate CNAA enquiries.
Study of the report of the institutional assessment shows that the College is generally unable to attract the staff which it needs, and that in staffing terms, it lives on a knife edge, while the Business Studies report (Appendix F) states clearly that the courses considered by CNAA are not comparable with huse in the Polytechnic. Since Lingnan College is highly regarded in some sectors in Hong Kong which have had either general or specific