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proposals for new degree Courses at Hong Kong
City
Polytechnic
Polytechnic and
and Baptist College are assessed by the United Kingdom
Council for National Academic Awards.
A Planning Committee on
Academic Awards has been appointed to make recommendations on the
for validation of Courses within Hong
establishment of
Kong.
system a
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The Hong Kong Government is also placing high priority on the expansion of technical education and industrial training
to support
the continuing development of the territory's manufacturing and
service industries. Two more technical institutes were opened in
1986: in the new towns of Sha Tin and Tuen Mun,
Tuen Mun, raising the number
of full-time and equivalent places in the seven technical institutes
from 9,100 to 13,400. An eighth technical institute will open next
year and will provide a further 2,700 places These institutes have been built under the auspices of Hong Kong's Vocational Training
Council which has wide responsibilities for developing and
operating technical and
craftsmen and technicians.
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training centre
complexes
industrial
for training
operatives,
The Council operates two industrial
provide training
trainees each year
which
in
the major
industrial skills for
9,000 some
On the
commercial side, the council opened
opened two new training centres during the year in the fields of insurance and electronic data processing.
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Medical Services
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63.
Hong
In the field of medical and health services work continued on
The extensive hospital building programme. Kong's
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number of
has risen from
beds in government and government-subvented hospitals
17,000 to
to 22,000 over the last ten years and is projected to rise to
over 27,000 by the end of 1990.
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64.
the
A government
management
and
in
March.
One of
commissioned report by
organisation of hospital services
its
consultants overseas
on
was
published
is
that the
management of all
Hospital
resources
government
principal recommendations
government and subvented hospitals be vested in a
Authority to
the ensure
and facilities and to
hospitals.
most
efficient
reduce the present
There has been a mixed
use of staff
overcrowding in
reaction to the
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