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The Hong Kong Education System

Chapter 6

Tertiary Education and Teacher Education

A: Tertiary Education

The provision and development of tertiary education in Hong

Kong are matters which are central to the deliberations of the Committee

to Review Post-secondary and Technical Education, which is expected to

report in the second half of 1981. The Committee's recommendations are

likely, in view of its comprehensive terms of reference, to have far-

reaching effects on the educational system, not only in the post-school

sector but also at the several points of access from school to further

education and employment.

Committee's terms of reference

6.2

The Committee's terms of reference are as follows:

Having regard to:

(1) the advice of the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee

that the maintenance of a growth rate of 3 per cent per annum

for the universities and a ceiling of 12,000 full-time

equivalent students at the Polytechnic into the 1980s would

have uncomfortable implications for Hong Kong's economic

prosperity and social well-being, and that there should be a

survey of all tertiary and higher level education, taking

fully into account the type and range of courses offered by

the Polytechnic and the technical institutes;

(2)

the concern of the Advisory Committee on Diversification that:

(i) the current higher education targets may not produce

sufficient skilled and/or professionally trained

personnel (particularly in the technological field)