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(3) student enrolment targets for the decade commencing with the

next triennium in 1984 in the range of available and prospective

courses;

(4) policy options with recommendations relating to

(a) the expansion of existing institutions;

(b) the creation of new institutions;

(c) relationships between institutions;

(a) the use of distance learning;

(e)

alternative courses of action or development;

(5) the feasibility or desirability of instituting public

scholarships (or other schemes) for degrees overseas either

generally or in particular fields of study,

and to report within six months.

6.3

With such a wide range of interrelated matters under current

review, there is bound to be a general stock-taking when the Committee

reports, and this could affect both the existing provision and the

overall deployment of resources in the sectors concerned. No attempt

is made in the following paragraphs to predict the likely outcome of

the review. The statements that follow are no more than an attempt to

place the review in focus by reference to the findings of various

official groups which have considered aspects of tertiary education in

recent years: the necessarily tentative nature of those findings was

one of the factors which led to the decision that a thorough survey was

warranted and that its ambit should be wide.

The 1978 White Paper

6.4

The development of higher education in Hong Kong was considered

in 1977 by the Working Party on Senior Secondary and Tertiary Education,

the conclusions of which were taken into account in the White Paper