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materials, and another for the counselling of students. It also provides modest assistance in the use of the equipment and in the development of teaching aids. Civil Engineering staff do not seem to make much use of it.
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As for the Polytechnic, members consider that the teaching approach and the amount of time devoted to laboratory and project work will give a more open approach to education. Staff rely a lot on the Educational Technology Unit for service; it has 28 staff. These include staff with responsibility to help the various divisions to develop teaching materials appropriate to their needs.
There is a tendency for the Hong Kong Baptist College courses to be more a collection of individual modules than a coherent course of study providing an overall education. A coherent course presupposes corporate staff action in developing the course. Members are disappointed at the limited extent to which the staff take corporate responsibility for the course.
A particular example is the manner in which the course is examined. Each member of staff teaches his particular unit and sets the examination paper without co-operation or help. The paper is submitted to the Head of Department but the purpose is not to moderate or comment on either the content or the approach. The examination scripts are marked by the lecturer concerned without moderation except in the case of final year papers, a selection of which are moderated by the external examiner. Members consider that there is great benefit in staff discussing examination papers together in a mutually helpful but critical manner.
Members discussed with the staff at the Baptist College their arrangements for the assessment of students. It is clear that the examining like the teaching is left to individual members of staff and that there is no discussion or record as to whether, for example, the course work in a unit however it is assessed should or should not contribute to the final mark for that unit and if so by how much.
The regulations for progression of students on the course are not as clearly specified as they should be for the benefit of both staff and of students.
7.11 Members were pleased at the use by the Hong Kong Baptist
College of external examiners.