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proposals for new degree Courses at Hong Kong Polytechnic City
Polytechnic and Baptist College
the United Kingdom
A Planning Committee on
are assessed
Council for National Academic Awards.
Academic Awards has been appointed to make recommendations on the
establishment of a system for validation of courses within Hong
Kong.
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The Hong Kong Government is also placing high priority on the expansion of technical education and industrial training to support
the continuing development of the territory's manufacturing and
service industries. Two more technical institutes were
in
open next
opened
1986: in the new towns of Sha Tin and Tuen Mun, raising the number
of full-time and equivalent places in the seven technical institutes
from 9,100 to 13,400. An eighth technical institute will
year and will provide a further 2,700 places These institutes have been built under the auspices of Hong Kong's Vocational Training
Council, which has wide responsibilities for developing and
operating technical
craftsmen
and
industrial
for training
operatives,
and technicians. The Council operates two industrial
training centre complexes which provide training in the major
industrial skills for some 9,000 trainees each year
commercial side, the Council opened two new training centres during
the year in the fields of insurance and electronic data processing.
On the
(c)
Medical Services
extensive
work continued
number of
on
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In the field of medical and health services
The hospital building programme. Hong Kong's beds in government and government-subvented hospitals has risen from 17,000 to 22,000 over the last ten years and is projected to rise to
over 27,000 by the end of 1990.
in
March.
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A government commissioned
the management and
was organisation of hospital services
One of its principal recommendations
overseas report by
consultants
on
published
is that
the
Authority to
ensure
hospitals.
management of
of all government and subvented hospitals be vested in
Hospital
resources
government
facilities and
a
the most efficient
use of staff
and to reduce the present overcrowding
There has been a mixed reaction
in
to
the
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