TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1986
LOCAL ISATION AT SENSIBLE AND EVEN PACE'
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THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY) THAT THE GOVERNMENT WAS NOT RUSHING INTO LOCAL ISATION AND WOULD ACHIEVE LOCALISATION OBJECTIVES AT A SENSIBLE AND EVEN PACE+.
SPEAKING TO REPORTERS AFTER OPENING THE HONG KONG BAPTIST COLLEGE HISTORY EXHIBITION AT THE LANDMARK, SIR DAVID SAID THE FIGURES WHICH LAY BEHIND THE STATEMENT HE MADE IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL LAST WEEK SHOWED THE MEASURED PACE WITH WHICH THE GOVERNMENT WAS PROCEEDING WITH LOCALISATION.
+LOCALISATION IS BEING ACHIEVED AND IT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED AND IT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED OVER A VERY CONSIDERABLE PERIOD OF TIME, HE SAID.
HE REFUTED SUGGESTIONS THAT THERE WAS A GROWING ROW BETWEEN THE LOCAL SENIOR CIVIL SERVANTS AND THEIR EXPATRIATE COUNTERPARTS.
ASKED WHY THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT APPOINT A LOCAL CHINESE AS THE NEXT CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID SAID +ALTHOUGH WE HAVE A PROCESS OF LOCALISATION WE ALSO PROMOTE ON MERIT AND NOT ON RACE, AS I SAID BEFORE. AND DAVID FORD, BY VIRTUE OF HIS EXPERIENCE AND AGE, HAS NOW REACHED THE POINT AT WHICH HE CAN TAKE OVER FROM ME NEXT YEAR.+
THE CHIEF SECRETARY DECLINED TO COMMENT ON A REPORT THAT THE SECRETARY FOR DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, MR DONALD LIAO, WAS THE MOST LIKELY CANDIDATE TO TAKE OVER FROM MR ERIC HO ON THE SINO-BRITISH JOINT LIAISON GROUP.
+ I CANNOT SPECULATE ON THAT, HE SAID.
32 000 FIRST DEGREE PLACES PLANNED BY MID-1990'S
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WITH THE PLANNED EXPANSION OF THE EXISTING HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE THIRD UNIVERSITY, THE GOVERNMENT'S TARGET IS TO DOUBLE FIRST DEGREE PLACE PROVISION TO SOME 32 000 PLACES BY THE MID-1990'S, THE CHIEF SECRETARY, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING OF THE HONG KONG BAPTIST COLLEGE HISTORY EXHIBITION, SIR DAVID PRAISED THE COLLEGE FOR GIVING GOOD EDUCATION TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF HONG KONG OVER THE PAST 30 YEARS.
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