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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1900

DURING THE PERIOD COVERED BY

THE REPORT

1986 (JULY 1987), THE OVERALL STUDENT NUMBER HAD INCREASED BY ABOUT 50 PER AND FIVE DEGREE COURSES WERE SUCCESSFULLY VALIDATED TO STUDENTS IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR, JOINING THE TWO DEGREE COURSES

IN OPERATION.

THE YEAR ALSO SAW

JUNE

CENT,

*ACCEPT ALREADY

THE POLYTECHNIC HOLD ITS FIRST ACADEMIC MORE THAN AWARDS CEREMONY AT WHICH

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WERE AWARDS SPECIAL HONORARY AWARD OF HONORARY FOUNDING FELLOW SIR SZE-YUEN CHUNG IN RECOGNITION OF THE PIVOTAL BRINGING THE POLYTECHNIC INTO BEING.

A CONFERRED. WAS CONFERRED ΤΟ PART

IN HE PLAYED

MR CHENG SAID THE

DEVELOPMENT

OF

THE

PERMANENT

CAMPUS IN GREAT PACE DURING KOWLOON TONG HAD PROCEEDED AT A

THE YEAR UNDER BREAKING CEREMONY AND REVIEW, WHICH AT ITS BEGINNING SAW THE GROUND

WHICH AT THE END, IN JUNE 1987, THE LAYING OF THE FOUNDATION STONE AT THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, OFFICIATED.

HE ADDED: "THE FIRST HALF OF THE INITIAL

OF PHASE

DUE CONSTRUCTION IS

TO BE COMPLETED IN SEPTEMBER, ENABLING POLYTECHNIC TO MOVE SOME OF ITS ACTIVITIES INTO THE IN THE 1988-89 ACADEMIC YEAR.

THE THE PERMANENT CAMPUS

"THE COMPLETION OF THE

INITIAL PHASE

WILL NOT BE ACHIEVED POLYTECHNIC JS FULLY

UNTIL A FURTHER 12 MONTUS HAS ELAPSED, BUT THE EXPECTING TO COMPLETE ITS MOVE TO KOWLOON TONG IN THE SUMMER OF 1989.'

MR CHENG

SAID

THE REPORT DESCRIBED A YOUNG BUT THRIVING

THE WAY TO

AND MATURITY INSTITUTION, ALREADY WELL ON

MAKING A ΤΟ THE EDUCATION OF OUR SIGNIFICANT, AND INCREASING, CONTRIBUTION YOUNG PEOPLE IN HONG KONG.

HE ALSO PAID TRIBUTE TO MR S.L. CHEN WHO WAS THE CITY POLYTECHNIC COUNCIL. UNTIL THE END OF 1987.

THE CHAIRMAN

OF

THE

OF

THE CHAIRMANSHIP AT

CITY POLYTECHNIC HAS HELPED TO ENSURE THIS INSTITUTION WERE THE

"HIS CLOSE INVOLVEMENT WITH THE WORK OF SINCE THE FORMATION OF THE PLANNING COMMITTEE THAT FIRM FOUNDATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT ALREADY IN PLACE WHEN I

TO SUCCEEDED BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR,

MR CHENG SAID.

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