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students and amongst the staff. On how soon we

can give decisions, as I indicated in my original

answer, this is two halves really.. I think we can

deal with the financial bit within the present

other one,

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system very quickly; as for the I think it would

be very rash for me to hazard a guess at this stage.

MR. MARTIN LEE:

Will the

of

Administration inform the Council the anticipated

time frame before a decision is likely to be made

to have the Lingnan College included in the UPGC

system?

SECRETARY

FOR

EDUCATION AND MANPOWER:

Sir, I think it would be as I said just now rash

for me to hazard a guess on this but

this

kind

of process

takes

years.

There

normally

has

been

some misleading press comparisons with the Baptist

College which seem to imply it was a very quick

process in that case but if you actually look at

the facts, the process of absorbing the Baptist

College into the UPGC system took several years.