FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1990
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EXPANSION OF TERTIARY EDUCATION VITAL TO HK'S SUCCESS, PROSPERITY
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A COMMUNITY
IS
ACUTELY
CONSCIOUS
OF
THE
TRUE
HONG KONG AS IMPORTANCE AND VALUE OF EDUCATION AND THIS WILL BECOME EVEN MORE IN THE 1990'S, THE GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID WILSON, SAID TODAY (FRIDAY).
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THE OPENING CEREMONY OF SHAW SPEAKING AT
COLLEGE AT THE SIR DAVID SAID: 'OUR CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG,
ECONOMY IS
IF BECOMING
SOPHISTICATED.
WE
TO ARE
KEEP PACE WITH CERTAINLY TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, AS OUR INTERNATIONAL COMPETITORS MOST
ABILITIES OF OUR WILL, THEN WE SHALL NEED TO UPGRADE THE SKILLS AND OWN PEOPLE."
AND SPECIAL
ALSO, HONG KONG'S FUTURE LEADERS WOULD FACE NEW CHALLENGES
MOVED FORWARD то KONG
A BECOME RESPONSIBILITIES AS HONG ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.
SIR DAVID
GOVERNMENT HAD NUMBER OF
THE SAID, FOR ALL THESE REASONS, EMBARKED ON A FAR-RANGING PROGRAMME, BOTH TO INCREASE THE PLACES AVAILABLE AND TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF EDUCATION.
THE TERTIARY SECTOR WOULD DOUBLE ITS FIRST-DEGREE 7,000 TO 15,000 BY 1995.
ΤΟ "THIS EXPANSION PROGRAMME IS VITAL AND PROSPERITY OF HONG KONG, THE GOVERNOR SAID.
T
PLACES FROM
THE CONTINUED SUCCESS
A COMMUNITY EFFORT, SIR ΤΟ ENSURE THERE WERE
NOTING THAT EDUCATION WAS ABOVE ALL DAVID SAID THE GOVERNMENT WOULD DO ITS UTMOST ADEQUATE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL.
THE
AND
UNIVERSITY, CHINESE "BUT IT MUST BE FOR TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS, TO PROVIDE THE COURSES WHICH MEET CHANGING NEEDS, HE SAID.
HE ALSO POINTED OUT THAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR HAD AS SIR RUN RUN SHAW TO PLAY, NOT ONLY AS BENEFACTOR BUT ALSO AS BENEFICIARY.
OTHER OUR HONG KONG'S
A MAJOR PART HAD SHOWN
OF THE NEW "FOR IT IS ONLY BY MEETING THE ECONOMIC CHALLENGE
TO THRIVE AS A VITAL TRADING DECADE THAT HONG KONG WILL CONTINUE TERRITORY.
"IT IS A CHALLENGE TO WHICH I BELIEVE HONG KONG, AND ABOVE
SIR DAVID SAID. THOSE WHO WILL USE THIS SPLENDID CAMPUS, ARE EQUAL,
ALL
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THE GOVERNOR SAID THE UNIVERSITY HAD IN THE PAST 27 YEARS THAN KEPT PACE WITH THE CHANGING NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY.
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/"THE HONG
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