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Industrial Centre programme in the Engineering courses. Members considered that the approach adopted in the Centre was excellent and were full of praise for the work carried out there.
22.2 Members consider that the greater facility of the
22.3
Polytechnic students to adapt to industry owes something to the work of the the industrial centre and to the attitude thereby engendered among students.
There is no comparable facility at the Baptist College but there students do spend a limited time in the workshops on woodwork, metalwork and concrete.
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23.1
CONCLUSIONS
In comparing the quality and standard of the courses at the Baptist College with those for comparable students at the Polytechnic members have found that the quality and standard at the College is currently inferior in terms of the professional engineering experience of the staff, the level of provision of facilities including overall space, the specialist laboratories, the general and capital equipment, the library and the teaching aids.
23.2 Further, despite higher nominal entry requirements, the
Baptist College attracts less well academically qualified students.
23.3 Despite these criticisms there exists a good tradition of
academic teaching in the department which has been fostered by the present Head of Department and which deserves recognition and development. This existing base can serve as a foundation on which can be built courses which will attain and continue to attain an overall level comparable to the parallel courses in the Hong Kong Polytechnic. The basic requirement for this to be achieved is money.
23.4
(i) There must be an adequate financial remuneration in order to attract and retain staff of the right calibre.
(ii)
There must be sufficient resources to establish the laboratories at a level adequate to support the courses which are to be developed.
A decision needs to be made as to what sort of course or courses the College should offer. The present attempt to provide a two-year technician engineering course which serves as a foundation for an academically oriented final year is unsatisfactory. If the courses at Senior or