Vice-Chancellor's Report 1978-82

was remarkably consistent at between 186 to 191 students throughout the four-year period. Overall, postgraduate student number which reached 935 in the academic year 1981/82 registered a significant growth rate of some 14% from the level of 1978/79. By contrast, undergraduate enrolment only managed to grow by a modest 1.5% during the same period. In 1981/82 ， the University launched its first Part-time Degree Programme i n Social Work and a total of 24 part-time undergraduate students were admitted to the University. Student Activitie s The University is fully committed to the provision of an ail- round education i n the four years that a student spends in the University. Not only are general education and language training an integral part of the curriculum, but the University has also, since the Second Fulton Report, instituted what is known as student-orientated teaching. Furthermore, the role extracurricular activities can play in enhancing leadership training, flexibility in thinking and broadening of perspective has also been fully recognized. The students have on their own initiative organized various extracurricular activities which cover a wide spectrum of human interests and needs. Such activities include intellectual, cultural and sports events, religious gatherings, social and recreational activities, forums, discussions and exhibitions, which all help to create a balanced and varied experience i n campus life. Student activities showed a remarkable increase i n the four years since 1978/79 but particularly so i n the last two years when extracurricular activities grew by 34.5% and 22.5% respectively in terms of number of events organized. This was due partly to the multifarious functions associated with the University Open Day in 1980/81 and partly to the opening of the Sir Run Run Shaw Hall in the summer of 1981. The Hall provides a convenient venue for movies, theatre and other kinds of activities much favoured by the students. These activities tend to be concentrated in the months of September to November when the freshmen first enter university and when there is generally speaking more time for social and recreational pursuits. As is the pattern wi th most other universities in the world, first and second year students tend to devote more time to extracurricular activities than do upper year undergraduates Resident students who already have the benefit of 11