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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1992

OF

LIVED IN

BY CLEARANCES, RESIDENTS IT ALSO INCLUDED THOSE AFFECTED TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA AND WAITING LIST APPLICANTS WHO HAVE HONG KONG FOR AT LEAST THREE YEARS BUT LESS THAN SEVEN YEARS.

UP TO MID-MAY, MR EASON SAID A TOTAL OF FLATS IN TIN SHUI WAI HAD BEEN COMPLETED.

14

1,630

PUBLIC HOUSING

CLEARANCE AND 1,000 FOR ELIGIBLE

'ALL OF THESE ARE FOR RENTING, WITH 630 TO MEET OTHER OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND THE REMAINING WAITING LIST APPLICANTS.

1,225

A MID-MAY,

OF

FLATS AS AT

TOTAL

HAD BEEN APPLICANTS WHO MEET THE NORMAL REHOUSING ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA.

OF THEM, 755 WERE FROM THE GENERAL WAITING LIST CLEARANCE AND OTHER CATEGORIES.

LET

то

AND 470 FROM

AND THE

CRITERIA

MR EASON SAID A TOTAL OF 8,961 PUBLIC RENTAL HOUSING FLATS 1,824 HOS FLATS WERE PROGRAMMED FOR COMPLETION AT TIN SHUI WAI BY END OF THE CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR ADDING THAT THE ALLOCATION WOULD BE THE SAME AS THOSE DESCRIBED ABOVE.

FIRST-DEGREE PLACES

DISTRIBUTION OF FIRST-YEAR,

BEING WORKED OUT

THE UNIVERSITY AND POLYTECHNIC GRANTS COMMITTEE (UPGC) AND THE SEVEN TERTIARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS TO WHICH IT PROVIDES FUNDING ARE OF PLANNING TARGET NOW WORKING OUT THE DETAILS OF HOW THE REVISED

IN OVER THE NEXT FIRST-YEAR, FIRST-DEGREE PLACES SHOULD BE PHASED THREE ACADEMIC YEARS.

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR EDUCATION AND MANPOWER, MR JOHN CHAN, IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

MR

YEAR, FIRST 1994-95 HAD OF NEW

CHAN SAID THE PLANNING TARGET OF 15.000 FIRST DEGREE PLACES FOR 18 PER CENT OF THE 17-20 AGE GROUP BY BEEN REVISED TO 14,500 FOLLOWING THE RELEASE EARLY THIS YEAR DEMOGRAPHIC DATA FROM THE 1991 CENSUS.

SAID

REPLYING TO A QUESTION BY THE HON. TIK CHI-YUEN, MR CHAN

DISTRIBUTION THE NUMBER OF FIRST-YEAR, FIRST-DEGREE PLACES AND THEIR BETWEEN

FROM

THE INSTITUTIONS

SUBJECT OF 1992-93 TO 1994-95 WERE

CONTEXT OF DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE UPGC AND THE INSTITUTIONS, IN THE THE LATTER'S ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS FOR THE 1992-95 TRIENNIUM.

EFFECT

NOR

THE

"BECAUSE DISCUSSIONS ARE ON-GOING, IT IS NEITHER POSSIBLE

ΤΟ THE FOR

GOVERNMENT

WHAT ANTICIPATE APPROPRIATE

ACADEMIC PLANNING, ADJUSTMENT OF THE PLANNING TARGET WOULD HAVE ON

STAFFING OR STUDENT ENROLMENT," HE SAID.

/"THE TASK