a
·
In
rate. of,4% per annum will continue until 1988, but specific over and above this request▷ by the Government will be net over figure. Thus, the targets for the 1985-86 triennium are 8,000 for Hong Kong University, and 7,000 for the Chinese University of Hong Kong" Dagree programbee are planned for the Hong Kong to Polytechnic, which will be expanded, on its present site, its full capacity of 13,500 full time equivalent students. addition, it is envisaged that the second polytechnic, from its inception, will recruit
ita students onto proportion of The Planning Committee for degree
the Second. Polytechnic, which was appointed in June this year under the able chairmanship of Sir S.Y. Chung, has made rapid progress in establishing the framework within which the new polytechnic
will grow.
Eventually, the two polytechnics together could have a capacity of 27,000 full time equivalent places, of which up to 308 would be for students on doyres courses. The Baptist College, under the nogie of the UPGC will, in due course, offer a mix of degree, and non-degree courses.
74.
COUZDAB.
All of these proposals taken together should mean that, by the end of the decade, there will be first year degree places for about 6t of the' rolovant age group, rising to St in the mid 1990's.. Faic coatzasto with a figure of about 28 at
present.
75.
Looking
to
UPGC
Government and the
developments in the longer tera, the studying the further growth
possibility Of
potential of t two Universities and
and the establishing 2 third university or another major tertiary institution. The UPGC will also be asked to consider the zole
which a properly constituted open university might play in Hong
Kong.
76.
(v) Students, overseas
on the basis of the proposals contained in the report of the Overseas Students Trust, the Government hopes to reach
/agreement.