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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1987
FOLLOWING A SUCCESSFUL PLENARY SESSION OF THE PLANNING COMMITTEE LAST MONTH, SIR DAVID SAID IT WAS NOW HOPED TO APPOINT THE VICE CHANCELLOR BY THE END OF THIS YEAR; TO ESTABLISH THE NEW UNIVERSITY'S COUNCIL IN APRIL NEXT YEAR: AND ΤΟ ACCEPT THE FIRST STUDENTS IN 1991, WHICH WOULD BE WELL AHEAD OF THE ORIGINAL PLANNED DATE OF 1994.
ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN GENERAL, SIR DAVID SAID OUR TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS NOW PROVIDED MORE THAN 34,000 FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT PLACES, WITH OVER 18,000 STUDENTS ON DEGREE COURSES.
"BY THE MID-1990'S WE SHOULD BE PROVIDING A TOTAL OF ABOUT 55,000 FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT PLACES IN HIGHER EDUCATION. THIS WILL MEAN THAT OVER 10 PER CENT OF THE 17 TO 20 AGE GROUP WILL BE STARTING ON FIRST DEGREE COURSES IN HONG KONG COMPARED WITH ONLY FIVE PËR CENT PER CENT NOW,
"AND WE MUST NOT FORGET STUDENTS ARE NOW ESTIMATED TO BE OVERSEAS.
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THAT MORE THAN 25,000 HONG KONG STUDYING AT TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS
IN ADDITION TO A WIDE RANGE OF DEGREE COURSES AT THE
GOVERNMENT WERE BUILDING ON UNIVERSITIES, SIR DAVID SAID THE
THE SUCCESSFUL INTRODUCTION OF VOCATIONALLY-ORIENTED DEGREE COURSES AT THE POLYTECHNICS AND THE BAPTIST COLLEGE ΤΟ HELP MEET HONG KONG'S NEEDS FOR SPECIALIST MANPOWER.
"OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS, A LAW. DEPARTMENT WILL BE ESTABLISHED AT THE CITY POLYTECHNIC
SPRECH THERAPISTS WILL BR TRAINED AT HONG KONG UNIVERSITY,
AND
"PROPOSALS ARE ALSO UNDER DISCUSSION FOR SETTING UP AN ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AT THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY, HE ADDED.
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PLANS TO SET UP OPEN LEARNING INSTITUTE
COMMITTEE FOR
THE GOVERNOR,
THE GOVERNMENT HAS DECIDED TO SET UP A PLANNING ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OPEN LEARNING INSTITUTE, SIR DAVID WILSON, TOLD THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
THE
9IR DAVID SAID THE INSTITUTE WOULD OFFER DEgree and SUB-DEGREE COURSES AND SHOULD ADMIT ITS FIRST STUDENTS IN 1989.
HE SAID THE PROVISION OF THE INSTITUTE, WHICH WOULD KONG'S SIXTH DEGREE-AWARDING INSTITUTION, WOULD CONSIDERABLY THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR TERTIARY EDUCATION.
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