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FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1994

MECHANICAL,

19

9.082

PRODUCTION AND

INDUSTRIAL

ENGINEERING

SUB-TOTAL

143

68.036

BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE

BIOLOGICAL

51

34.019

SCIENCES

MEDICINE,

31

20.033

DENTISTRY AND

HEALTH

SUB-TOTAL

82

54.052

HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

ARTS AND LANGUAGES

11

6.924

ADMINISTRATIVE,

BUSINESS AND

SOCIAL STUDIES

EDUCATION

LAW, ARCHITECTURE,

TOWN PLANNING

AND OTHER

PROFESSIONAL AND

VOCATIONAL STUDIES

SUB-TOTAL

TOTAL

55

24.656

4.184

3

1.491

77

37.255

371

192.856

IN SELECTING PROJECTS FOR FUNDING SUPPORT, THE RGC HAS REGARD FOR THE PROJECTS' ACADEMIC MERIT/INTEGRITY, THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO THE NEEDS OF THE INSTITUTIONS AND HONG KONG'S OVERALL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT.

THIS WAS THE FOURTH RESEARCH GRANT ALLOCATION EXERCISE UNDERTAKEN BY THE RGC SINCE IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN JANUARY 1991.

PROF PING K KO, WHO REPLACED PROF DAVID TODD AS CHAIRMAN OF THE RGC EARLIER THIS YEAR, SAID: "THE FUNDING AVAILABLE ΤΟ THE RGC THIS YEAR INCLUDED $210 MILLION AS ORIGINALLY ALLOCATED BY THE GOVERNMENT AND AN ADDITIONAL $50 MILLION MADE AVAILABLE BY THE UPGC RECENTLY.

"THE ENHANCED LEVEL OF FUNDING THIS YEAR AS COMPARED WITH 1993/ 94 HAS ENABLED US TO SUPPORT, FULLY OR PARTIALLY, 371 PROJECTS AS COMPARED WITH 193 LAST YEAR.

/"THE RGC