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Open Learning Institute granted self-accrediting status
The Government has decided to grant self-accrediting status to the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong (OLI), subject to periodic external institutional reviews by the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAA).
Announced that today (Thursday), a spokesman for the Education and Manpower Branch said the decision followed the recommendation of HKCAA after it had conducted an institutional review of the OLI last year.
"The HKCAA reported favourable assessments of the Institute's overall performance, culture for quality assurance, internal academic quality assurance systems, and internal and external communications," the spokesman said.
He pointed out that in the 12-month transition period from June 1995 to May 1996, the Institute had further strengthened its quality assurance mechanisms and had jointly conducted programme accreditation with HKCAA.
"The Government will ask the HKCAA to undertake an external institutional review of the OLI every five years. The objective is to monitor the academic development of the Institute and the continued effectiveness of its quality assurance and improvement processes.
"The reports of the reviews would be made available to the public." the spokesman said.
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Land Registry statistics for September released
A total of 10,549 sale and purchase agreements for building units, which include both residential and non-residential properties, were lodged with the Land Registry last month.
The figure represents an increase of 5.8 per cent from that of August this year and an increase of 62.1 per cent compared with September last year.
The total considerations of these agreements in the month is $29.2 billion which was down by 1.1 per cent but up 68.1 per cent compared with the amounts for August 1996 and September last year respectively.