Registry No. Wh
3
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION.
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Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
25
DRAFT PROJECTS COMMITTEE
Type 1 +
€
SUBITIGST
To:-
FROM
E V Wade-Brown
Telephone No. Ext.
Department
HKIOD
In Confidence
HONG KONG: ASSISTANCE TO THE FOLYTECHNIC
6195 0073528 400M 2/74 Cr.P.C. 839/3
NOTHING TO BE WRITTEN IN THIS MARGIN
That
should be
spent
on
TOTAL COST OF PROJECT
1.
•
£500,000.
This submission is perhaps unusual in that the willingness of the British Government to provide this aid was formally announced in Hong Kong in November 1972 by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. The Projects Committee is therefore asked only to approve the manner in which the Hong Kong Government proposes to use the grant. However, in saying this, it would seem unreasonable to expect the Hong Kong Government to specify, in detail, such books and equipment as may be purchased over a three year period in the knowledge that new books and more advanced equipment are continually becoming available.
I SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND
2. The purpose of the project is to assist the development of technical education in Hong Kong by providing books and equipment to the value of 2500,000 to the Hong Kong Folytechnic, which was formally established on 1 August 1972 to replace the Hong Kong Technical College. The establishment of
approximately ₤170,000 the Hong Kong Polytechnic forms part of a large
• Equipment and $330,000 It is the intention of the Hong Kong Government/
Bush programme for the expansion of technical education.
on books and
journals
library.
sum by spending approximately. JEAN
uipment
ximately.2380,000 02
rent and $729,000
x books for the
3. The project will be managed by the University and Folytechnic Grants Committee (UFGC) of which the Director of the lnter University Council (IMC) is a
member.
/II THE
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