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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1993
NO SURVEY AMONG CIVIL SERVANTS OF INFORMATION LEGISLATION
THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT CONDUCTED ANY SURVEY AMONG CIVIL SERVANTS TO ASCERTAIN THEIR VIEWS ON THE INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION ON ACCESS TO INFORMATION, THE SECRETARY FOR HOME AFFAIRS, MR MICHAEL SUEN, INFORMED THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THIS (WEDNESDAY) AFTERNOON.
KUNG-WAI, MR A SURVEY
LOH REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON CHRISTINE SUEN SAID THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT HAVE ANY PLANS TO CONDUCT ON THE TOPIC.
"HOWEVER, WERE WE TO DO SO, WE WOULD NOT SINGLE OUT CIVIL SERVANTS FOR PARTICULAR CONSIDERATION, AS THIS ISSUE IS ONE OF COMMUNITY-WIDE INTEREST AND CONCERN, MR SUEN SAID.
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AVERAGE UNIT COST FOR EDUCATING HK STUDENTS
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DIRECT COMPARISON OF THE AVERAGE COST FOR PROVIDING EDUCATION EACH STUDENT AMONG THE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS FUNDED BY THE UNIVERSITY AND POLYTECHNIC GRANTS COMMITTEE (UPGC) IS PARTICULARLY DIFFICULT, THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR MICHAEL LEUNG, SAID TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
THIS IS BECAUSE THE INSTITUTIONS ARE DIFFERENT IN THE RANGE OF FACULTIES/DEPARTMENTS/SUBJECTS; MIX OF LEVELS OF STUDIES INCLUDING TAUGHT POSTGRADUATE AND RESEARCH STAFFING COSTS AND STAFFING
SUB-DEGREE, UNDERGRADUATE, POSTGRADUATE; STRUCTURE.
STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT;
IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON HENRY TANG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, MR LEUNG GAVE THE AVERAGE UNIT COSTS FOR PROVIDING EDUCATION FOR EACH STUDENT AT THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY (HKU), CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG (CUHK), HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC (HKP), CITY POLYTECHNIC OF HONG KONG (CPHK), HONG KONG BAPTIST COLLEGE (HKBC), HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY {HKUST} AND LINGNAN COLLEGE IN 1991/92 WERE $168,397, $128,051, $83,966, $115,139, $94,520, $442,855 AND $74,076 RESPECTIVELY.
HE EXPLAINED THAT HKUST'S UNIT COST WAS CONSIDERABLY HIGHER THAN THE OTHER INSTITUTIONS BECAUSE OF THE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF FRONT-END LOADING REQUIRED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY VIS-A-VIS THE STUDENT INTAKE WHICH WAS BELOW THE PLANNED CAPABILITY.
"THE UNIT COST PER STUDENT WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE AS THE UNIVERSITY BUILDS UP ITS STUDENT POPULATION, HE ADDED.
AS THE HUẬT AND LINGNAN COLLEGE ONLY BECAME UPGC-FUNDED INSTITUTIONS IN 1991/92, THE AVERAGE UNIT COSTS BEFORE THIS ACADEMIC YEAR WERE NOT AVAILABLE.
HKP,
AS FOR THE OTHER INSTITUTIONS, THE FIGURES FOR HKU, CUHK, CPHK AND HKBC IN 1990/91 WERE $130,562, $104,319, $67,958, $83,880 AND $76,111 RESPECTIVELY WHILE THOSE FOR 1989/90 WERE $119,954, $64,420, $84,809 AND $70,170 RESPECTIVELY.
$95,955,
/FOR SECONDARY