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4. HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC
I. GENERAL COMMENTS
30. My visit consisted basically of a number of meetings with
the Directorate and administrative staff
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collectively,
a programme of
individually and on an informal social basis
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appointments with Heads of Departments, two sessions with the staff,
and participation in meetings of the Staffing and Academic
Committees. The latter features were particularly valuable in
enabling me to get an idea of how the administration of the
Polytechnic works.
31. In general my programme was well organised to enable me to
derive the maximum benefit from the time available.
I was
impressed however with the amount of personal criticism that I
heard. Nobody except the Staff Association for their own reasons
had a good word to say for Mr. Old the former Director and it was
painfully clear to me that he had been a disaster to the Polytechnic.
The details of this are outside the scope of the present report
but it was also very apparent that the Polytechnic had for
sometime been suffering from a lack of any real direction at all.
This had, in fact, been one of the reasons why the official
invitation to myself for my visit had taken so long to come
through and then only because of the outside intervention of
Mr. Kingwell. The Directorate has always been one short because
the post of Associate Director (Technical Studies) has not been
filled, and since the spring of 1974 there has been no Director.
Dr. Y.K. Ching the former Deputy and now Acting Director, shows
At the meeting of the
no signs of leadership or initiative.
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