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DRAFT SPEECH BY HON S L CHEN, CBE, DSC, JP

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 12 MARCH 1986

The City Polytechnic Annual Report

Sir,

In accordance with requirements of Section 21 of the

City Polytechnic Ordinance, I lay on the table the Report of the

City Polytechnic of Hong Kong together with a Statement of

Accounts for the period from January 1984 to June 1985. The Report, the first to be submitted

to be submitted to this Council from the City

Polytechnic, chronicles the progress of the first eighteen months

of the new institution's life following its foundation on 1

January 1984. It will be seen from the Report that speed of accomplishment has been the key feature of the period, and that the achievements have been significant and substantial.

when the Planning Committee for the new Polytechnic reported to the Government in June 1982, it was decided that the Polytechnic should admit its first students in October 1984. In

order to achieve this, an interim campus, Argyle Centre Tower II in Mongkok, was acquired shortly after the Polytechnic's formal

establishment. The building had been chosen after an extensive survey carried out by the Planning Committee, and their foresight in doing this literally provided the foundation

foundation for everything

else which followed afterwards. The building was converted to accommodate the Polytechnic's projected academic establishment in only sixteen weeks, so that the Polytechnic was able to offer its

first courses on schedule in October 1984, when almost 500

full-time students and more than 700 part-time students were admitted. By this time it had already recruited 333 academic, administrative and support staff, and had established its basic academic structure, courses, regulations, and admissions

policies.

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