Bulletin Spring 1989

As regards future employment expectations, 41.9% of the freshmen cited administrative / management as their top preference, followed by teaching (36.9%), research (29.4%), computer/data processing (16.3%) and social services (13.9%). Part-time Degree Programmes Freshmen of the Part-time Degree Programmes are different from their full-time counterparts in a variety of ways. They are older, with an age range between 23 and 49 ， while the average is 29.3 years. Female and male are about equally represented at a split of 46.9% and 53.1%. Unlik e their full-time counterparts, a large proportion of these part-time students are married (38%). Of these 66.2% hav e one or more children. Nearly half of the new students reported that they had, at one time o r another, attended post-secondary institutions after secondary schooling, while 39.1% had already graduated from Colleges of Education. About 16% took courses organized by various institutions, such as the extramural courses offered by the two universities. The survey found that the 1988 entrants to the Part-time Degree Programmes appeared to be a group of highly motivated learners. The new part-time students come from four major occupational sectors. 22.3% o f them work in various government units, 39.7% come from the education sector, 24% from commerce and industry, and 8.9% serve in various social service organizations . Most of these students chose to enrol in a subject that relates to their work. 59% of students enrolled in the Chinese-English Programme, 69.2% of those in the Music Programme and 94.4% of those in the Primary Education Programme are from the teaching profession. In the Social Work Programme, about half of the students are in-service social workers. Finally, 73.6% of the students in the Business Administration Programme come from the commerce and industry sector. Over half of the students (52%) have had working experience of less than six years, while 32.4% of them have worked for over ten years. About 18% of the new students have monthly salaries below $6,000 while 40% earn over $9,000 per month, the average being $9,053. As for the financing of university education, over 80% of the respondents reported that the major source of the fund came from their own personal income, while others relied on allowances from employers (10.1%), personal savings (3.9%), and assistance from family members (1.7%). Jar with looped handles, Southern Han (Exhibition of Archaeological Finds from the Five Dynasties to the Qing Periods in Guangdong) 20