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(f)

(g)

(h)

(i)

provision of passage accounts, to be used by staff

for travel purposes at their discretion and within

specified periods;

a more flexible application of the Government's 10-year residence rule to include study time for determining overseas status;

the award of "overseas" status to academics

the PRC, Taiwan and Macau; and

streamlining immigration procedures in respect of "overseas" candidates, particularly those from the

PRC.

The measures referred to in (b), (e), (f) and (i) would not involve additional funding. The financial implications in respect of the remaining proposals will need to be assessed by the

institutions; and the provision of additional funding will be the subject of a submission(s) to

to Finance Committee in the normal way.

25.

Q

of the

submissions from

Further, the UPGC has, at the request

Government, addressed a related issue

the two Polytechnics and the Baptist College, proposing that the salaries paid to their academic and equivalent administrative staff be revised to accord more closely with those paid to University staff. Members have concluded

that the stage has been

been reached in the development of tertiary education in Hong Kong where a common salary scale should be introduced for academic staff employed in all the institutions. It is recognised, however, that it will be

necessary to differentiate between the progression of staff

in the university and non-university sectors

by the

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