Vice-Chancellor's Report 1990-93

to cancer prevention, research, education and patient care. It organizes seminars, workshops and conferences to advance its aims and aspires to become the leading centre for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the Asia Pacific region. Established in August 1991, the Research Institute for the Humanities aims to encourage and coordinate collective and interdisciplinary research in the humanities, identify areas suited to long-term strategic research, and organize regional and international conferences on relevant subjects. Six interdisciplinary research programmes with well-defined areas of study have already been planned for the next few years, and a large-scale international conference on cultural criticism was held in late 1992, bringing some 100 leading scholars and cultural workers from different parts of the world to the University campus. The University Council has further approved the establishment of an Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993. The former w i l l concentrate on original and interdisciplinary research in the mathematical sciences, while the latter w i ll be a centre for coordinating major research and development programmes related to educational studies and teacher training, with a strong emphasis on the China dimension. Established under existing research institutes are three new research centres. They include the Centre for Environmental Studies (1990) and the Materials Technology Research Centre (1992) set up under the Institute of Science and Technology, and the Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture (1993) set up under the Institute of Chinese Studies. With these new institutes and centres, the University is able to provide better support services for staff and students to work towards the acquisition of new knowledge. S t u d e n t s Since the last triennium, student enrolment has grown by some 30 per cent, and efforts in various areas o f services have been made to respond to the needs of a much larger student body. Student Growth and Composition Statistics in appendices 3i and 3ii show that both enrolment and admission figures have increased steadily in the period. Analysis of undergraduate enrolment by faculty further reveals that the Faculty of Science had the largest enrolment in 1990-91. But with the establishment of the Faculty of Engineering in 1991-92, which absorbed all the science students f r om the former integrative 19

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