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Notable recent exchanges have included the visit last year by Dr. Legg and other senior staff at the Polytechnic to Sian Shiao-t'ung University and other institutions in China. Dr. Legg conveyed an invitation to the President of Sian Chiao-t'ung University to visit Hong Kong with a group but no date for this return visit was fixed. group from Chung-shan University led by their Vice-President visited CUHK for three days in February of last year.
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There are signs that requests by Chinese authorities for similar visits will be made more frequently in future, and the CS held a meeting with the two Vice-Chancellors and Dr. Legg on 25 January to discuss how these approaches should be handled. The Government's line was that while contacts with the Chinese universities are a natural develop- ment in the present stage of Chinese educational policy and Hong Kong/China relations, contacts should be approached cautiously and on the basis of initiatives from the Chinese. Interest on the Chinese side is likely to centre on the computer science department at the Polytechnic, which goes in for mass teaching in a way likely to be attractive to the Chinese, in the engineering departments at HKU and the Polytechnic, and in the commercial design and language teaching facilities at the Polytechnic.
(b) Longer periods of secondment
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There is greater concern about proposals for secondment of Chinese academics, as they raise the danger of our higher education institutions becoming swamped administratively and politically. Academics from Western institutions who have come to Hong Kong on schemes of attachment have invariably been able to play a full part in teaching programmes. It is likely that those from institutions in China would come more to learn than to teach, thus playing the part more of post-graduate students.
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