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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1989

PROF POON SUGGESTED

THAT A

BE

APPROACH TWO-PRONGED

SHOULD TRANSFER FROM ABROAD, AND ADAPT AND ADOPTED TO OBTAIN TECHNOLOGY DEVELOP THAT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY WHICH HONG KONG NEEDED MOST.

HE

REPRESENTED A

LONG-RANGE

TECHNOLOGY AND SAID SCIENCE

A FAR-SIGHTED APPROACH IN ENDEAVOUR AND THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE

IN PACE PROMOTING THEM IN ORDER TO KEEP LOCAL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT WITH OTHER ASIAN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

HE NOTED THAT THE

COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE

OF

AND TECHNOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY DIRECTIONS

WHICH HE WAS CHAIRMAN, HAD IDENTIFIED POSSIBLE OF IMMEDIATE RELEVANCE OR POTENTIAL LONG-TERM BENEFIT TO HONG KONG.

SERIOUSLY

CONSIDER THE

COMMITTEE'S DELAY,

THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD RECOMMENDATIONS WHEN AVAILABLE AND ACT UPON THEM WITHOUT UNDUE

HE SAID.

PROF POON POINTED OUT THAT ANOTHER FOR HONG KONG WAS MANPOWER TRAINING.

AREA OF PRIME IMPORTANCE

OF FIRST-YEAR, FIRST-DEGREE HE WELCOMED THE PLANNED INCREASE

BUT HE PLACES TO OVER 18 PER CENT OF THE RELEVANT AGE GROUP BY 1995, STRESSED THAT THE QUALITY OF GRADUATES WAS ALSO IMPORTANT.

TO

BE NEEDED TO HE ADDED THAT HIGH QUALITY ACADEMIC STAFF WOULD PRODUCE QUALITY GRADUATES, AND THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD LOOK FOR WAYS HELP IN RECRUITING AND KEEPING QUALITY STAFF.

HE CRITICISED THE GOVERNMENT FOR NOT PROVIDING FOR RESEARCH AS THIS LED TO A WASTE OF "BRAIN POWER" ACADEMIC STAFF.

ADEQUATE FUNDS RESOURCES AMONG

THE

HE NOTED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD ALLOCATED $120 MILLION TO

FOR RESEARCH IN THE INSTITUTIONS

1988-91 FIVE SUBVENTED TERTIARY TRIENNIUM, REPRESENTING A MERE $8 MILLION PER INSTITUTION PER ANNUM.

BASIS

ARE

NOT WITH

"IT IS IRONICAL THAT ACADEMIC STAFF ARE RECRUITED ON THE OF THEIR PROVEN RESEARCH RECORDS AND POTENTIAL, AND YET THEY

TO ENABLE THEM то CONTINUE PROVIDED WITH ADEQUATE RESOURCES THEIR RESEARCH WORK, HE SAID.

"

FUTURE OF HONG KONG ECONOMIC LINKS WITH MODERNISATION

PROF POON SAID IT WAS APPARENT THAT THE WOULD LIE PARTIALLY IN THE STRENGTHENING OF ITS CHINA AND THE ASSISTANCE IT COULD OFFER TOWARDS CHINA'S PROGRAMMES.

THAT

HONO REGION

KONG SHOULD

REMAIN

A.

WHICH CONTAINED THE

IMPORTANT EQUALLY IT WAS COMPETITIVE LINK IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC FASTEST GROWING ECONOMIES IN THE WORLD.

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