The Hong Kong Education System
Chapter 6
Tertiary Education and Teacher Education
A: Tertiary Education
The provision and development of tertiary education in Hong
Kong are matters which are central to the deliberations of the Committee
to Review Post-secondary and Technical Education, which is expected to
report in the second half of 1981. The Committee's recommendations are
likely, in view of its comprehensive terms of reference, to have far-
reaching effects on the educational system, not only in the post-school
sector but also at the several points of access from school to further
education and employment.
Committee's terms of reference
6.2
The Committee's terms of reference are as follows:
Having regard to:
(1) the advice of the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee
that the maintenance of a growth rate of 3 per cent per annum
for the universities and a ceiling of 12,000 full-time
equivalent students at the Polytechnic into the 1980s would
have uncomfortable implications for Hong Kong's economic
prosperity and social well-being, and that there should be a
survey of all tertiary and higher level education, taking
fully into account the type and range of courses offered by
the Polytechnic and the technical institutes;
(2)
the concern of the Advisory Committee on Diversification that:
(i) the current higher education targets may not produce
sufficient skilled and/or professionally trained
personnel (particularly in the technological field)