MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1989
SIR DAVID DESCRIBED THE HKU SCIENCE FACULTY AS THAT WELL-KNOWN HONG KONG PHENOMENON : FROM SMALL BEGINNINGS.
RAPID
AN EXAMPLE OF GROWTH AND SUCCESSFUL
SHEER
SIZE
OF THE
FACULTY
TODAY
-
NEARLY 1.000
"THE UNDERGRADUATES - IS IMPRESSIVE.
THE LATEST
"
"BUT. MORE IMPORTANT, THE FACULTY HAS KEPT UP WITH
AND RESEARCH PROGRAMMES, UNDERGRADUATE BOTH ITS DEVELOPMENTS IN
OF OF THE NEW
MASTER TWO-YEAR SAID SIR DAVID, CITING THE EXAMPLE
ITS KIND SCIENCE PROGRAMME ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, THE FIRST OF IN HONG KONG.
INITIATIVES "MUCH OF THE CREDIT FOR THESE RECENT YOUR DEAN, PROFESSOR POON, AND HIS COLLEAGUES. AND TO PROVIDED BY THE VICE-CHANCELLOR, DR WANG,
YEARS OF THE
GO TO THE LEADERSHIP SIR DAVID SAID.
MUST
FACULTY
HAVE
SEEN
REMARKABLE
50 "THE FIRST
AND
ALSO, I HOPE.
EVEN
CHANGES AND GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION IN HONG KONG. THE NEXT 50 YEARS WILL SEE FURTHER CHANGES GREATER ACHIEVEMENTS.
"THE NEEDS OF HONG KONG'S
HALF CENTURY PRESENT GOVERNOR SAID.
AN
ECONOMY AND SOCIETY IN THE NEXT
FACULTY, THE
CHALLENGE ENORMOUS
TO
THE
MORE RESOURCES FOR TERTIARY EDUCATION
OF EDUCATION THE DEVELOPMENT THE GOVERNMENT WILL STRENGTHEN IN THE TERRITORY BY DEVOTING MORE RESOURCES ON THE YOUNGER GENERATION, LAN, SAID THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR HONG KONG AND KOWLOON, MR DAVID TODAY (MONDAY).
HIOE CLUB
TJO YOENG PRIMARY THE GOVERNMENT
ADDRESSING THE CHINESE WOMEN'S SCHOOL'S GRADUATION CEREMONY, MR LAN POINTED OUT THAT HAD DECIDED TO SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE THE NUMBER OF FIRST-YEAR, FIRST- DEGREE PLACES.
"IT HAS BEEN
STARTING THAT DECIDED
INCREASED FIRST-DEGREE PLACES WOULD BE 15,000 IN 1995.
FROM
NEXT YEAR, FIRST-YEAR,
ABOUT
ΤΟ 7,000
ABOUT
IN
RECEIVE
THIS INCREASE WOULD GIVE A TOTAL OF 67,000 TERTIARY PLACES 1995, ENABLING ABOUT 25 PER CENT OF THE RELEVANT AGE GROUP TO TERTIARY OR POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION,
HE NOTED.
/TO AVOID