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17.4 The outlays of the department are not met from the income
set out above. The remainder comes from the profits of the materials testing programme. There is no allocation for major laboratory equipment and such as there is is bought from the materials testing programme. The gross income from that programme is around HK$ 1,000,000 per annum. The department considers that if such a sum of money were channelled into the department each year, after deduction of overheads for the College, the department would have some chance of getting the sort of equipment it needs.
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There is a sense of grievance in the department that despite creating a source of wealth for the College it itself is starved of adequate funds.
Members consider the level of provision of finance for the department to be totally inadequate in terms of what the department is trying to achieve and detrimentally affects the quality of the education offered to students.
The resources available to the department of Civil and Structural Engineering at the Polytechnic for the year 1980/81 amount to about
$200,000 for equipment
$200,000 for general expenditure
The income from consultancy and testing which accrues to the department and part of which is available for equipment is about $200,000. These sums do not include staff salaries or any grants for equipping new laboratories.
LABORATORIES
18.1 The laboratories at the Baptist College have an area of
500 m2 including the testing area, drawing office and general workshop. The new Science and Engineering building due to be completed towards the end of 1982 will provide 1,000 m2 for the Civil Engineering laboratories plus 384 m2 for a Design and Drawing office. Whether this will be in addition to the present space is under discussion. This improvement in facilities will be extremely welcome and will undoubtedly improve the potential of the College.
18.3 The present laboratories are inadequate. The provision
of equipment in them and the extent to which they have been developed as teaching instruments in their own right and as a supplement to the taught material is very poor and much inferior to the Polytechnic. Members of the