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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1987

"THE EXPERIENCE OF MANY COUNTRIES IN THE 1960'S SHOWN THE PERILS OF NEGLECTING QUALITY EDUCATION. THAT IS WHY THE

AND 70'S HAS AND THE HIGHER PURPOSES OF COMMISSION EDUCATION

PAINS

OF

TO ITS IN BOTH

PUBLISHED REPORTS

OUR EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES AND THE PHILOSOPHY BEHIND SAID.

HAS LOOK

BEEN AT SUCH TERM AT LONG POLICIES," HE

HE POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS IN THAT SPIRIT THAT

THE

ΤΟ NEED

STRENGTHEN THE HAD SPOKEN, FOR EXAMPLE, OF INTEGRATED SIXTH FORM AND TO BROADEN ITS CURRICULUM.

THE COMMISSION TWO-YEAR

OPPORTUNITIES

"HOWEVER, AS MEMBERS KNOW, OUR SEARCH FOR

IRRELEVANT. ON MEAN THAT WE DISMISS QUANTITY AS EXPANSION

AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NINE YEARS FREE AND COMPULSORY ACHIEVEMENTS, HE SAID.

OF TERTIARY

中甲

QUALITY SHOULD NOT THE CONTRARY, THE THE SUCCESSFUL EDUCATION ARE REAL

MR BRIDGE REITERATED THAT QUANTITY MUST GO HAND IN HAND.

AND

QUALITY

IN

EDUCATION

SPEAKING ON THE OPEN LEARNING INSTITUTE (OLI),

THE REMARKS

MEMBERS HE WAS ENCOURAGED BY

BY SOME ESTABLISHMENT OF SUCH INSTITUTE IN HONG KONG.

MR BRIDGE SAID CONCERNING THE

THE

OF STATUS HE AGREED THAT THE

NEW INSTITUTE SHOULD BE AIM COMPARABLE TO THAT OF EXISTING TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS AND THAT OUR

THE SAME DEGREE OF SHOULD BE FOR ITS QUALIFICATIONS TO BE ACCORDED RECOGNITION AS THOSE OF ESTABLISHED UNIVERSITIES AND POLYTECHNICS.

ACHIEVES THIS WILL IS SHORTLY TO

NEW INSTITUTION "OF COURSE, WHETHER THE DEPEND ON THE SUCCESS OF THE PLANNING COMMITTEE WHICH BE APPOINTED," HE SAID.

"WE WILL NEED TO MOVE QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY ARE TO ACHIEVE OUR TARGET DATE OF 1989 FOR THE FIRST HE ADDED.

ON THIS IF WE STUDENT ENTRY,

NO REFLECTION ON THE MR BRIDGE EXPLAINED THAT IT WAS STATUS THAT IT WAS NOT TO BE CALLED AN OPEN UNIVERSITY.

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OLI'S

REFLECT THE

ΤΟ CHOSEN **THE NAME FOR THE NEW INSTITUTION WAS FACT THAT IT WILL OFFER BOTH DEGREE AND SUB-DEGREE LEVEL COURSES.

LARGE ACADEMIC FACULTIES

IN THE UK.

"MOREOVER, THE OLI WILL NOT DEVELOP ALONG THE LINES OF, FOR EXAMPLE, THE OPEN UNIVERSITY

"BY

REMAINING

A STREAM-LINED

A SMALL, TO REACT KEEP

ORGANISATION, WITH ACADEMICS, THE OLI WILL BE ABLE EXPERT CORE OF SENIOR QUICKLY TO CHANGES IN THE DEMANDS OF SOCIETY AND WILL BE ABLE TO THE COST OF COURSES WITHIN THE MEANS OF THE AVERAGE STUDENT,

** HE SAID.

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