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The Polytechnic will expand rapidly in the interim

campus to 2,500 full-time students and a similar number of part-time students by 1988, when part of the first phase of the permanent campus in Kowloon Tong will be ready for occupation. The availability of the permanent campus will provide the impetus

for a further substantial expansion, to 8,000 full-time equivalent students by 1990-91.

were

During the first academic year

year (1984-85) eight courses

of various levels

Professional Diploma,

offered

at the

Higher Diploma, Diploma, and Higher Certificate, in Accountancy, Business Studies, Computer Studies, Social Work, and Language

Translation and Interpretation. All courses offered by the

Polytechnic are planned in close consultation with external advisors, and are designed to meet the commercial, industrial and

social needs of Hong Kong. The high demand for these courses is reflected in the number of applications received: 12,500 for the

500 full-time places and

places. This trend has

(1985-86): . over 22,300

over 4,000 for the 700 part-time

continued into the current session

applications were received for the

established courses and new courses in Building, Electronic

Engineering,

Mathematics

and

Management

application-to-place ratio of almost 13 to 1.

Studies,

an

The level of courses was extended this year to include

a Postgraduate Diploma, and the Polytechnic has high hopes of extending this further next October when it expects to offer its

first Degree courses.

In keeping with the original

recommendations of the

the Planning Committee, these courses have a feature unique in Hong Kong in that they are based on the modular structure which enables both the full-time and part-time courses to have similar course contents and lead to the same awards.

research

The Polytechnic is fully conscious of the importance of

in

a new

higher

education

institution,

if

academic

is to be established and academic staff of the

credibility