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Friday, May 12, 1972
UNIVERSITY AND POLYTECHNIC GRANTS COMMITTEE
Five More Members Appointed
Five more people have been appointed to serve as Members of the
University and Polytechnic Grants Committee.
Sir Kenneth Ping-fan Fung, Member of Executive Council, and Mr.
Y.K. Pao of World-Wide (Shipping) Ltd., are two extra local Members while
the new overseas Members are Sir Eric Richardson, an engineer and until
recently the Director of the Polytechnic of Central London; Mr. James McHugh,
former lead of York College of Commerce; and Dr. R.L. Werner, Director of
the New South Wales Institute of Technology.
These appointments by the Governor, published in today's Gazette,
follow approval by Government of the Final Report of the Polytechnic Planning
Committee who recommended that the Hong Kong Polytechnic should be financed
through the University Grants Committee and that this Committee should be
expanded to cope with the task.
The new title of this Committee is the University and Polytechnic
Grants Committee. Its terms of reference have been modified to include
the Polytechnic as well as the Universities.
The new