teacher training;
and the
expansion of opportunities
for
higher education. The report, together with public commel-S
submitted to the Executive Council end of this year. The financing of any
thereon, should be
system of education will need
0%
be
decision before the
improvements to our
carefully considered, but I believe that the people of Kong attach great importance to education, and are prepared to pay for improvements.
57.
(ii) Technical education
Hong
Meanwhile, a major expansion of technical education and industrial training is in progress. The present five technical institutes provide technician and craft level courses in commercial and industrial subjects, and part-time day-release courses for apprentices. The number of places is
being increased by expansion of two existing technical institutes, and construction of two more technical institutes
in Shatin and Tuen Mun, expected to be completed by July 1995.
58.
Two new industrial training complexes are under construction at Kwai Chung and Kowloon Bay; they should be in
operation by late 1984. Completion of а Seamen's Training Centre is also scheduled for next year.
59.
(iii) Higher education
As regards the further development of higher
education, present Government policy is to increase the provision of first degree places from the present 3,100 first year places to 5,200 by 1989, and 7,000 by 1994. By the end of the 1985-88 triennium, the student population at the University of Hong Kong should be approximately 8,000, and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong approximately 7,000. The University and Polytechnic Grants Committee is looking into the possibility of further expansion of the two universities.
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