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and perhaps in staff expertise and experience, but key members. of staff may leave. If the present academic leaders leave the College, then the existing degree of cohesion may be lost and the visiting party's level of confidence would have to be re-established."

(Appendix D, Sections 8.1 and 8.2)

(These views are further developed in sections 8.3 to 8.8 inclusive of that Appendix)

In Civil Engineering the key sections which define the position in regard to comparability - again needing to be read in context, but appropriate here by way of summary are as follows:

"In comparing the quality and standard of the courses at the Baptist College with those for comparable students at the Polytechnic, members have found that the quality and standard at the College is currently inferior in terms of the professional engineering experience of the staff, the level of provision of facilities including overall space, the specialist laboratories, the general and capital equipment, the library and the teaching aids."

"Further, despite higher nominal entry requirements, the Baptist College attracts less well academically qualified students."

"Despite these criticisms, there exists a good tradition of academic teaching in the department which has been fostered by the present Head of Department and which deserves recognition and development. This existing base can serve as a foundation on which can be built courses which will attain and continue to attain an overall level comparable to the parallel courses in the Hong Kong Polytechnic. The basic requirement for this to be achieved is money."

(i) "There must be an adequate financial remuneration in order to attract and retain staff of the right calibre."

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There must be sufficient resources to establish the laboratories at a level adequate to support the courses which are to be developed.

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