Chapter 2: Academic Development and Funding
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Higher education should stay at the forefront of a society's development. Over the 1998-2001 triennium, the UGC continued to work closely with the Administration and the institutions in this respect, actively responding to the changing needs of Hong Kong and building a learning community for the city.

The massive expansion in Hong Kong's tertiary education in the early 1990s saw a significant increase in the number of first-year-first-degree (FYFD) and postgraduate places. Since 1995, the higher education sector has entered a stage of consolidation and the overall FYFD targets approved by the Government remained at the then level during the triennium under review.

 
 
 
Despite the pause in expansion, the UGC and the Administration continued to display a constancy of commitment, with investment on education remaining substantial and the UGC's efforts in promoting excellence and quality in higher education getting as strong.

In considering institutions' academic planning during the reporting triennium, the UGC worked with the institutions to advance various initiatives in response to the changing needs of the community and the economy. These included heightened efforts to enhance teacher training as well as the introduction of Chinese Medicine (CM) as an academic discipline. The 1998-2001 triennium saw the launching of the first full-time first-degree CM programmes by Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) as well as the introduction of the first Bachelor of Education Programme in The Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd). The UGC and the institutions also endeavoured to address specific manpower requirements of certain professions like medical doctor and social worker in the triennial planning exercise.

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In addition to meeting the community's evolving needs, the UGC also ensured that in deliberating institutions' academic planning and funding recommendations, the current and future development requirements of individual institutions appropriate to their respective roles and missions were given due consideration.

 
         
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