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Date:
Time:
25.11.86
2.15 to 5.00
Reporter:
JPM
Kong Polytechnic as a standard for Technical Institutes?
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DTEIT:
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No, not entirely Sir, I don't think so,
although clearly at the time we were thinking in 1982 we had to have
an advance over the designs which had been for the older Technical
Institutes. We were then and still are, taking from the Polytechnic
various diploma courses and the students, instead of going to the Hong
Kong Polytechnic, are now coming to the Institutes and therefore it is
reasonable for them to expect some improvement in student amenities,
and generally better standards in the Institutes. I don't think that Institutes have to be built to the standards of a Polytechnic no, but certainly improved over the Institutes which we had already
completed.
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MR CHEONG:
I see. Could I carry on?
CHAIRMAN:
Sure!
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MR CHEONG:
Could you please describe to us the
decision-making process on the building of these two Technical
Institutes? Was it the Council who made the decision or was it the
Department who made recommendations to the Council, was the Director
of Architecture ever consulted, etc. etc. Could you please describe
the decision-making process to us?
DTEIT:
Yes. You must remember Sir, that in this
context I am the sole person in the Department; I have various officers
who do in fact the remainder of my staff work for the Vocational
Training Council and so the Council as I said, it's professional
staff which produces these plans. But if you want me to go back,
before the Vocational Training Council was formed the idea of having
two or three I think it was, extra Technical Institutes was already
established; we then had to decide what courses should be put on,
what departments should go in and how large they should be, and
obviously this was done within the Secretariat of the Vocational
Training Council. This was then put to the Council, who approved the
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