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(c) Technical Education and Industrial
Training
Adequately trained and retrained manpower is
73.
vital
to
the
continued
newest Kong's Hong
success
of our commerce and largest Technical
and
industry.
Institute was opened in Chaiwan last month.
This has #cup
increased the number of full-time places for craft and technician courses from under 4,000 in 1982 to over 10 10500 thousand now. Part-time places haye also increased over
per cent
a total of over
over 446500, the same period by about 50 to thousand. By 1989 the annual number graduating from the
22,000. reach Institutes Technical impressive by any standards.
will
This
is
le
74.
(a)
Higher Education
also been
Our tertiary institutions have also growing at great speed. They now provide
more
than
with over 18,000
This number will increase
34,000 students on degree courses.
equivalent places, full-time
further when the third university opens. By the mid
1990s, we should be providing a
total of about 55,000
full-time equivalent places in higher education.
per cent
This
will mean that over 10 of the 17 to 20 age group will be
/starting