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82.
(v)
Open Learning Institute
In our plans for higher education, it is
important that we should provide opportunities for those
who have not previously benefited from higher education,
and to those who have done so, but who need to update and
renew their skills. This was a point made in the second report of the Education Commission. To meet these needs, the Government have now decided to set up a planning
for the establishment of an Open
Committee
Institute.
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Learning
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The provision of an open Learning Institute,
which will be Hong Kong's sixth degree-awarding institution, will considerably increase the opportunities
for tertiary education. The institute will offer degree
and sub-degree courses.
It should admit its first
students in 1989.
84.
(vi) Conclusion
Taken together, our plans for the expansion of
tertiary education over the period of the next decade are impressive. They amount to a doubling of degree opportunities for those who wish to take advantage of
them. Even so, the proportion of our youngsters who will
be able to receive the benefit of tertiary education will still remain comparatively small by world standards.
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