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students and personal relationships with them, were good, inspite of
the large classes and over-crowded classrooms.
Staff were expected
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to undertake administrative duties but the secretarial;
typing and duplicating facilities were excellent. In general he
thought life in Hong Kong had a lot to offer, but he said new staff
should be advised to apply for membership of clubs as soon as possib
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30. The Department consists of five British (including the head),
one American, one Australian, one Indian and six Chinese. Only
four posts are at the lecturer level (there are seven senior
lecturers) and they are all Chinese.
31. In 1975 Mr. Richardson's department would be needing a Principa
or Senior Lecturer in Industrial Engineering and an as yet undecided
number of lecturers. Their specialisations would need to include
work study, plant layout, machine handling, quality control, and
the software aspects of production management. He would also need
one or two conventional production people. Mr. Richardson went as
lecturer level far as to say it would be "unwise" to recruit at the / in Britain
and expressed the view that the Polytechnic would never achieve its
objectives unless its staff had something near parity with the
universities in salary level and status. He thought it was desirabl
to recruit more university people.
32. Mr. Richardson has an unusual personal problem as a result of
which he is trying to get back to Singapore or Malaysia, which he
regrets having left to take up the Hong Kong post. If he succeeds
TETOC may be asked to recruit a successor.
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