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view of staff intentions. A tentative attempt had been made to define the year 5 programme in two areas;

overall, however, members were not able to gain a clear view of staff intentions and in some areas no Year 5 programme had been designed.

6.

MEETING WITH STAFF

6.1

6.2

6.3

Members met the teaching staff in three groups Accounting, Marketing and Management Studies and Secretarial Management. They learnt that in all four departments staff teaching loads were approximately 24 hours per week. There were in fact very few staff in post as is described in the later sections of this report. The President had told members that staff would be in post in time to teach the course, but the present situation was that staff were too heavily loaded to keep up with their subjects, let alone to develop syllabuses.

Staff turnover was very high and members met few teachers who had been at the college for more than one year; most had in fact been there for only a few months - an example of this can be given from the Accounting area where there are to be 10 Accounting courses and there are only two full-time staff members (appointed in September 1980) with a further two due to arrive in September 1981 These staff are also responsible for teaching 'A' level Accounting.

Discussion with staff teaching the Management and Marketing majors

6.3.1 Members met eight members of staff, two of whom are in

the Department of Social Sciences and are responsible for Psychology and Sociology in the new course. They had not been involved in the development of the course but said that they taught Principles of Psychology and Sociology in the same way as in Social Science courses whilst attempting to relate them to the Hong Kong business situation.

6.3.2 of the staff to whom members spoke, only two full-time

and one part-time member had been at the college for more than a few months and these three answered the majority of members' questions about the course structure and content. They did not wish to move towards the less complex structure proposed in the Dean's paper since the present structure allowed students to obtain a transcript which was helpful in gaining admission to further study in the United States.

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