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EDUCATION

dangerous drugs legislation. Linguistic work on Chinese dialects and enquiry into the philosophy of language has also continued. In addition, two of several planned courses leading to Master's degrees in Arts and Social Sciences have been successfully launched.

In the medical faculty, the study of the growth and development of Chinese children entered its sixth year. Other projects included studies of erythrocytosis in hepatocellular carcinoma, the regulation of brain circulation and the level of female sex hormones in patients with trophoblastic disease. New and continuing projects in science, engineering and architecture included high-rise building research, building economics, ecology of marine and fresh-water organisms, investigations of agri- cultural pests, stability of cracking, electronic kymography and studies of local ionospheric and cosmic ray phenomena.

Research centres have also been set up in The Chinese University of Hong Kong. There are now-centres in the Institute of Social Studies and the Humanities, the Institute of Science and Technology, and the Institute of Chinese Studies. These provide wide-ranging research and training opportunities for staff and students of the university.

Projects in the social studies and humanities field include studies on the impact of urban industrialism on a Chinese village; the impact of industrialisation on fertility in Hong Kong; the various aspects of Hong Kong's hawkers; the Kwun Tong health systems; the people of Kwun Tong; and the legal problems of the press in Hong Kong. Science and technology projects include physiological studies on mud-skipper fish; pollution studies and marine ecology of Tolo Harbour. Chinese studies include Cantonese as spoken in Hong Kong; the compilation of a dictionary of spoken Chiu Chow dialect; and the Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage.

The Polytechnic

On August 1, 1972 the Polytechnic Board assumed responsibility for the work of the Hong Kong Technical College as the first stage in its development of the Poly- technic.

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The Board has accepted the recommendations of the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee that its student target figures should be raised to 8,000 full-time and 20,000 part-time students by 1978.

For the current academic year, the teaching work of the Polytechnic is essentially that being carried out by the Technical College at the time of the transfer of responsi- bility.

During the session preceding the hand-over, the Technical College, a post- secondary institution operated by the government, had a total enrolment of 12,402 students in 413 classes comprising 1,576 full-time students in 65 classes, 1,164 part- time day-release students in 47 classes and 9,662 evening students in 301 classes distributed over 10 centres with eight departments.

The Polytechnic now has a total enrolment of 12,998 students in 418 classes, comprising 1,828 full-time students in 63 classes, 942 part-time day-release students