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against refusal to register (or cancellation of registration of) a

college or teacher or member of the Board of Governors may be made by

petition to the Governor in Council. As noted in chapter 2, the colleges

have been eligible (since 1979) for government financial assistance

provided they restructure their courses in accordance with the policies

set out in the 1978 White Paper. These conditions, together with conditions

for the control of grants made to the colleges, are laid down by the

Director of Education in respect of the two colleges (Hong Kong Baptist

College and Lingnan College) which have accepted financial assistance;

further control is also exercised by the Director in respect of loans or

grants made to eligible students in all three colleges at present

registered under the Ordinance.

3.16

The Approved Post Secondary Colleges must provide major courses

extending over at least four years and may award College diplomas and

College certificates, but they may not award degrees or issue any document

which could reasonably be taken as signifying the award of a university

degree. The individual college authorities are now being consulted on

the proposed amendments of the Post Secondary Colleges Ordinance.

Government management of education

3.17

Within the government the management of education conforms in

the main to the procedures adopted for the management of other services.

The Secretary for Social Services is responsible within the Government

Secretariat to the Chief Secretary for the co-ordination of education

(and other social services) programmes and is assisted at present by a

Deputy Secretary and four Principal Assistant Secretaries, each with

a major field of responsibility within the social services. The Principal

Assistant Secretary concerned with education is assisted by two Assistant

Secretaries, one of whom is concerned with tertiary education, sixth-form

education, technical education, industrial training and miscellaneous

education matters; the second Assistant Secretary is concerned with