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rate of 4% per annum will continue until 1988,
of,4%
will continue until 1988, but specific requests by the Government will be met
bemet over and above this figure. Thus, the targets for the 1985-88 triennium are 8,000 for Hong Kong University, and 7,000 for the Chinese University 1 of Hong Kong" Degree programbes are planned for the Hong Kong
Polytechnic, which will be expanded, on its present site,
to
ita full capacity of 13,500 full time equivalent students. In addition, it is envisaged that the second polytechnic, from its inception, will recruit a proportion of itạ students onto degrac courses. The Planning Committee for the Second. Polytechnic, which was appointed in June this year under the able chairmanship of Six S.X. Chung, has made rapid progress in establishing the framework within which the new polytechnic I will grow. Eventually, the two polytechnics together could have a capacity of 27,000 full time equivalent places, of which up to 30% would be for students on degree courses. The Baptist College, under the aegis of the UPGC will, in due course, offer
a mix of degree, and non-dagree courses.
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A11 of these proposals takon together should nean that, by the end of the decade, there will be first year degree | places for about at of the rolovant age group, rising to St in the mid 1990'a.. This contrasto with a figure of about 20 at
presont.
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Looking to developments in the longer term, the Government and the UPGC az o atudying the further growth potential of the two Universities and the possibility of establishing a third university of another major tertiary The UPGC will also be asked to consider the role
which a properly constituted open university might play in Hong
Kong.
institution.
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Studento. OVCIBOĽO
On the basis of the proposals contained in the report of the Overseas Students Trust, the Government hopes to reach
/agreement.
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