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Answer:

2

The

University has yet to put details of the

proposed change to а four-year degree course to the

University and Polytechnic Grants Committee (UPGC). It

has set up a working party under the chairmanship of the

Vice Chancellor to assess the detailed implications. I

understand that the working party plans to take about a

year over its task.

2.

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Once it has received the University's proposals,

the UPGC will have to examine the consequences for funding

and student number targets in the tertiary system, bearing

in mind competing demands for limited resources and the

Government's firm commitment to double the number of first

degree places, from the present figure of 4200 to 8300 by

the mid 1990's. After taking into account these factors,

the UPGC will have to advise the Administration on the

acceptability or

otherwise of the proposal.

Administration will then consider the Committee's advice,

bearing in mind

in mind the possible

the possible consequences for the whole

education system, before reaching its final conclusions.

The

3.

financial

I now turn to the preliminary assessment of

implications.

Before receiving HKU's specific

proposals, such

an assessment is difficult. A very crude

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