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proposals for new degree Courses at Hong Kong Polytechnic City
Polytechnic and Baptist College are assessed
by the United Kingdom
Council for National Academic Awards. A Planning Committee on
on the
Academic Awards has been appointed to make recommendations
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 opened in
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 open next 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
industrial training for operatives,
craftsmen 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.
technical
and
On the
(c)
Medical Services
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Hong
In the field of medical and health services work continued on
Kong's extensive hospital building programme. The number of
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.
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March.
A government commissioned report by
report by overseas
the management and organisation of hospital
in
consultants on
services was
published
is
that the
in
a
staff
management of all
One of its principal recommendations
government and subvented hospitals be vested
Hospital Authority to ensure the most efficient use of
resources and facilities
government
hospitals.
reduce the present overcrowding in
and to
There has been a
mixed reaction to the
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