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as a whole. Its immediate task has been to consider the
report of the international panel, to which I referred last year, and to make recommendations to the Executive Council on the major findings of the report. Under the able leadership of its Chairman, the Honourable Q.W. Lee, the Commission has completed this initial task and its report will be submitted before the end of this month, with recommendations concerning the future of the Junior Secondary Education Assessment; language in
in education; improvements in teacher preparation and the teaching service; open education; and educational
research.
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(ii) Higher Education
The first and most important of our new tertiary institutions is the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong, which
some 480 full-time and 680 part-time
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That this project could be got off
principle
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opens its doors to
students on October 8.
the ground so quickly a mere two-and-a-half years from the Government's approval in
Owes much to the
determination and diligence of the Planning Committee chaired by the Honourable Sir S.Y. Chung. I would also like to record my thanks to the Hong Kong Polytechnic for all the
assistance it has provided the Planning Committee in its
deliberations. The City Polytechnic is expected to offer a
number of degree courses from 1986-87. Its sister institution, the Hong Kong Polytechnic, will this year increase its degree courses from five to
to eight. Similarly the Hong
Hong Kong Baptist College is expected to offer some degree courses within the next few years.
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In this connection, the Government is examining a recommendation of the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee that Hong Kong should no longer rely on the UK
Council for National Academic Awards
Academic Awards for the validation of
degree courses, but should have a body of its own to
maintain
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