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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1987

"PART-TIME PLACES HAVE ALSO INCREASED OVER THE SAME ABOUT 50 PER CENT TO A TOTAL OF OVER 46,500.

PERIOD BY

THE "BY 1989

GRADUATING INSTITUTES WILL REACH 22,000. THIS IS IMPRESSIVE HE NOTED.

ANNUAL

NUMBER

FROM THE BY ANY

TECHNICAL STANDARDS,

11

LENGTH OF DEGREE COURSES BEING STUDIED

*

IN

SIR

STUDY OF

THE EDUCATION COMMISSION HAS BEGUN A COMPREHENSIVE THE STRUCTURE OF TERTIARY EDUCATION

MARCH THIS YEAR AND AMONG

LOOK INTO THE OTHER THINGS IT WILL

OF LENGTH

DEGREE COURSES AT TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS, THE GOVERNOR,

SAID WILSON,

TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

DAVID

HE HOPED THAT HISTORICAL PROBLEM

NOTING THAT THE ISSUE HAD BEEN LOOKED AT A NUMBER OF TIMES IN THE PAST BUT HAD STILL TO BE RESOLVED, SIR DAVID SAID THIS WOULD PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO RESOLVE THIS IN A CONSTRUCTIVE WAY.

HE SAID THE COMMISSION WAS CONSIDERING A WIDE RANGE OF OPTIONS AND WOULD CONSULT WIDELY BEFORE IT MADE ITS RECOMMENDATIONS.

"THERE WILL BE A FURTHER PERIOD OF PUBLIC CONSULTATION AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF THE REPORT BEFORE A FINAL DECISION IS TAKEN ON WHAT CHANGES, IF ANY, ARE NEEDED," HE SAID.

THE

TURNING TO RESEARCH IN TERTIARY INSTITUTES, SIR DAVID SAID

RECOGNISED GOVERNMENT

THAT GOOD RESEARCH

то CONTRIBUTED

THE

AND THEMSELVES

THAT IT INTELLECTUAL LIVELINESS OF THE INSTITUTIONS

ON WHICH THE ALSO PROVIDED THE SKILLS FOR THE INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION ECONOMY WOULD INCREASINGLY DEPEND.

OUR

"WE SHALL BE INCREASING THE FUNDS MADE AVAILABLE TO TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS FOR RESEARCH OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS BY ALMOST THREE TIMES TO A TOTAL OF $120 MILLION, HE SAID.

"

SCIENCE AND

TECHNOLOGY,

OF ON THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY

SIR DAVID SAID THE PROJECT HAD BEEN GIVEN A MAJOR BOOST BY A GENEROUS DONATION OF $1.5 BILLION FROM THE ROYAL HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

THIS SUM WOULD MEET MOST OF THE CAPITAL COST UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN SAI KUNG.

OF

BUILDING THE

/FOLLOWING A