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present.
Part-time places in the institutes have also increased by 50 percent over the same period to over 46,500. These figures
indicate the high priority the Hong Kong Government are according to
the expansion of technical education and industrial training.
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The Hong Kong Government also have ambitious plans for the
expansion of tertiary education. There are now more than 34,000
full-time equivalent places in tertiary institutions, including
18,000 students on degree courses in five degree awarding
institutions: the Hong Kong and Chinese Universities,two
polytechnics and the Hong Kong Baptist College. Plans are well
under way for a third university, the Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology, which is expected to accept its first
students in 1991, well ahead of the original planned date of 1994.
The project is being assisted by a donation of HK$ 1,500 million
from the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club which will meet most of the
capital cost of building the university campus. By the mid-1990s,
when the new University will have enrolled its full initial
complement of students, there should be a total of about 55,000
full-time equivalent places in higher education in Hong Kong, or 75
per cent more than at present. There should also be some 36,000 students on degree courses, a doubling of present numbers.
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The Hong Kong Government have also decided to set up a
Planning Committee for the establishment of an Open Learning
Institute. This will offer degree and sub-degree courses to adults
who have not previously undertaken higher education and to those who
need to update and renew their skills. It is intended that the
Institute should admit its first students in 1989.
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Medical and Health Services
45. In the medical field Hong Kong has ten large hospitals and a
number of other specialist medical clinics and smaller hospitals.
Another very large hospital is now being built in the New
Territories and construction has recently begun on an even larger
one in the eastern district of Hong Kong Island. The number of beds
in government and government-subvented hospitals, now about 22,000, is expected to increase by 50 per cent over the next decade.
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