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MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1988

"BUT OUR EXPANSION WILL NOT

STOP

1994. IN

THE

THE

FULL-TIME ΤΟ REACH

GOVERNMENT'S PLAN IS TO CONTINUE THE EXPANSION AT THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY AND CHINESE UNIVERSITY ΤΟ

THEIR REACH

CAPACITY OF 10,000 EQUIVALENT PLACES EACH BY 1997, AND AT THE CITY POLYTECHNIC ITS CAPACITY OF 13,500 BY THE SAME YEAR."

THE SPOKESMAN SAID FURTHER GROWTH HAD

THE HONG KONG THE BAPTIST COLLEGE AND TECHNOLOGY.

ALSO BEEN PLANNED FOR

OF UNIVERSITY

AND SCIENCE

"EXECUTIVE COUNCIL HAS GIVEN 4,000 BAPTIST COLLEGE TO EXPAND TO 1997 AND TO 5,000 BY THE YEAR 2000,"

"FOR HONG KONG UNIVERSITY

PHASE II OF ITS

DEVELOPMENT

APPROVAL IN PRINCIPLE FOR THE FULL-TIME

PLACES BY

HE SAID.

EQUIVALENT

TECHNOLOGY, AFTER COMPLETED

THE

IN

OF SCIENCE

HAS PROGRAMME

AND

BEEN

1994-97 TRIENNIUM WHICH WILL PROVIDE 7,000 FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT PLACES, IT WILL CONTINUE WITH A PHASE III DEVELOPMENT TO PROVIDE UP TO 10,100 FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT PLACES BY THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.

ARE PLANS

ALL

OF TERTIARY

"IF THESE

REALISED, PROVISION

FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT PLACES IN EDUCATION WILL INCREASE FROM 48,800

MORE THAN 1994 TO 62,100 BY THE YEAR 2000, AN IMPRESSIVE INCREASE OF 27 PER CENT.

FOR

FIRST-YEAR

STUDIES

PER CENT BY

FIRST-DEGREE "THE PARTICIPATION RATE WILL INCREASE FROM ABOUT 11 PER CENT IN 1994 TO OVER 14 THE YEAR 2000," THE SPOKESMAN SAID.

LOOKING FURTHER INTO THE FUTURE, THE SPOKESMAN HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC HAS ALREADY REACHED ITS CAPACITY NOW, UNIVERSITY, CHINESE UNIVERSITY AND THE CITY THE SAME POSITION BY 1997,

THE

US

AND THE BAPTIST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BY IF DEMANDS SO REQUIRE, FOR NECESSARY, INSTITUTION OF A MAJOR SIZE, FOR EXAMPLE A IN THE NEXT CENTURY.

"WE WILL BE KEEPING THE MATTER UNDER ABLE TO TAKE A DECISION EARLY IN THE 1990S.

SAID: "AS THE HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC WILL BE IN COLLEGE AND HONG KONG YEAR 2000, IT MAY BE

ΤΟ

NEW SET UP ANOTHER THIRD POLYTECHNIC, EARLY

REVIEW

AND HOPE TO

BE

QUALIFIED

WORKFORCE

ESSENTIAL

A "HONG KONG NEEDS TO PROVIDE FOR ITS CONTINUOUS SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT.

"THE GOVERNMENT'S

OF APPROVAL

THE SPECIFIC STUDENT NUMBER PLANNING PROJECTIONS TARGETS FOR 1991-94 TRIENNIUM AND ITS LONG TERM CLEARLY UNDERLINE ITS DETERMINATION TO ACCORD A VERY HIGH PRIORITY THE EXPANSION OF TERTIARY EDUCATION TO MEET HONG KONG'S REQUIREMENTS.

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