WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1978
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+1 SHOULD NOT LIKE TO SEE OUR TECHNICAL INSTITUTES SUFFER
A SEA-CHANGE TO PERFORM VAGUE, ILL-DEFINED ROLES IN OUR COMMUNITY. SOME CREASES, HOWEVER, IN THE TECHNICIAN COURSES MIGHT WELL BE PCSS.LE.+
TURNING TO. THE UNIVERSITIES AND THE POLYTECHNIC, MR. TOPLEY SAID THAT BECAUSE THE AD HOC GROUP HAD MADE NO JOINT STATEMENT ON THE PROPOSED RATES OF EXPANSION IN THE THREE INSTITUTIONS, THE PROPOSAL APPEARED TO MEET WITH THE SATISFACTION OF THE MAJORITY.
+ INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS HAVE PROPOSED CHANGES IN THE RATES OF PROVISION AND THE METHODS BY WHICH THESE SHOULD BE ACHIEVED, + HE SAID. +MR. LO AND MR. YEUNG HAVE PROPOSED THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MORE DEGPEE GRANTING INSTITUTIONS.
+MR. LO HAS, IN EFFECT, RECOMMENDED COMPLETE RELAXATION, INDEED ABANDONMENT OF THE RULES' CONTROLLING THE GRANTING OF DEGREES TO ENSURE THAT ASPIRATIONAL DEMAND IS FULLY MET. HE IS CONFIDENT THAT STANDARDS COULD BE PROTECTED BY AN ACCREDITING SYSTEM.
+1 SHOULD IMAGINE, HOWEVER, THAT MOST MEMBERS WOULD NOT LIKE DECISIONS MADE ON SUCH AN EXTREME PROPOSAL WITHOUT MUCH FULLER DISCUSSION.
+ WOULD SUGGEST, THEREFORE, THAT WHILE THIS IS AN ISSUE +1 DESERVING OF FURTHER DEL IBERATION, THIS SHOULD NOT BE DONE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FORTHCOMING WHITE PAPER.
+A NUMBER OF MEMBERS ARE CONCERNED THAT THERE SHOULD BE AN INCREASE IN THE GENERAL OPPORTUNITIES TO PURSUE TERTIARY EDUCATION, IN PARTICULAR PART-TIME DEGREE COURSES.
+THEY SEE SUCH AN INCREASE AS A MEANS OF AVOIDING THE UNDES IRAELE SOCIAL DISRUPTION WHICH COMES FROM THE FRUSTRATION OF ASPIRATIONS AND AS A WAY TO REDUCE HONG KONG'S NEED TO RECRUIT SPECIALIST SKILLS FROM OVERSEAS. THESE ARE VALID POINTS WHICH MUST BE CONSIDERED IN DRAFTING THE WHITE PAPER.+
MR. TOPLEY SAID THAT, FROM MR. Q.W. LEE'S SUMMARY OF THE AD HOC GROUP'S RECOMMENDATIONS AND FROM INDIVIDUAL SPEECHES STRONG SUPPORT WAS EVIDENT FOR ACCORDING THE POST-SECONDARY COLLEGES A CLEARLY DEFINED AND FINANCIALLY ASSISTED ROLE IN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM, HE SAID: THE GOVERNMENT RECOGNISES THE SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY WHICH THESE COLLEGES ARE PROVIDING AND CONSIDERATION IS NOW BEING GIVEN TO AN APPROPRIATE FORM OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE WHICH COULD BE OFFERED TO THE COLLEGES IN RETURN FOR WHAT MR. LEE HAS DESCRIBED AS "FINANCIAL. QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE CONTROL BY THE GOVERNMENT, BOTH IN REGARD TO THE CONTENT OF THEIR COURSES AND THE NUMBERS OF THE IR STUDENTS'.
+DISCUSSIONS ARE CURRENTLY BEING HELD WITH THE COLLEGE AUTHORITIES WITH A VIEW TO REACHING A MUTUALLY ACCEPTABLE ROLE FOR THEM WHICH WILL ACCORD WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S APPROVED GROWTH TARGETS FOR POST-FORM 5 EDUCATION.
/+DE, HUANG'S PROPOSALS .........