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technical institutes and a dramatic programme for the conversion and
extension of the Hong Kong Technical College into the Hong Kong Polytechnic.
The Polytechnic is a legally independent autonomous body operating under
the Hong Kong Polytechnic Ordinance approved in 1971. It is controlled by
a board of 15 members, two of whom (the Director of Education and the
Director of the Polytechnic) are appointed ex-officio, the remainder being
appointed by the Governor. Four of the Board members, including the
Director of Education, are government officers. Financing of the Polytechnic
is made on a University Grants Committee-type system. The University
Grants Committee of Hong Kong, established in 1965, was in April 1972
expanded and renamed the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee
of Hong Kong.
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic formally took over the Hong Kong Technical
College on 1 August 1972 and is now engaged on a very considerable
expansion of student numbers, courses, staff and teaching facilities. At
the beginning of the academic year 1973/74, a total of 2,600 full time
equivalent students were registered in day courses and 11,500 part time
students in evening courses. In the current academic year (1974/75) the
Polytechnic expects to have about 3,600 full time equivalent students in
day courses and 13,500 part time students in evening courses. It was
anticipated that 1,700 new first year students would be admitted in September
1974 to various full time day courses leading to the award of the Higher Diploma and the Technician/ordinary Diploma. About 250 of these would
be in courses of study offered for the first time. The approved enrolment
target is 7,000 full-time equivalent day students and 20,000 part time
evening students by 1978. The ultimate target is $8,000 full time and
20,000 part time students.
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The main campus of the Polytechnic is located at Hung Hom Kowloon
on a site adjacent to the cross Harbour tunnel. It includes all the buildings
taken over from the former Technical College, which provide accommodation
for most of the workshops and laboratories as well as a small library, some
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