Answer:
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The
University has yet to put details of the
proposed change to а four-year degree course to the
University and Polytechnic Grants Committee (UPGC). It
has set up a working party under the chairmanship of the
Vice Chancellor to assess the detailed implications. I
understand that the working party plans to take about a
year over its task.
2.
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Once it has received the University's proposals,
the UPGC will have to examine the consequences for funding
and student number targets in the tertiary system, bearing
in mind competing demands for limited resources and the
Government's firm commitment to double the number of first
degree places, from the present figure of 4200 to 8300 by
the mid 1990's. After taking into account these factors,
the UPGC will have to advise the Administration on the
acceptability or
otherwise of the proposal.
Administration will then consider the Committee's advice,
bearing in mind
in mind the possible
the possible consequences for the whole
education system, before reaching its final conclusions.
The
3.
financial
I now turn to the preliminary assessment of
implications.
Before receiving HKU's specific
proposals, such
an assessment is difficult. A very crude
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