Validation of Business Administration and Chinese courses increases the number

LINGNAN College will double its first-year first-degree places in the next academic year, following validation of two new degree programmes in Business Administration and Chinese.

According to the institute secretary Dr Katherine Yao York-bing, the accrediting exercise was conducted by the Hongkong Council for Academic Accreditation (HKCAA) last month.

With the validation, Lingnan College will now offer a new degree programme in Business Administration, with a projected intake of 160 students in September, while the Faculty of Arts will offer 75 places for a Chinese degree programme.

Last year, Lingnan could offer only 248 first-year first-degree places, and these were for the Social Sciences and Translation degree course.

The Business Administration programme will be in four main streams - Accounting, Information Systems, Human Resources Management and Marketing - and the intake will be increased to 385 next year.

Four additional streams - Finance, Entrepreneurship, Purchasing and Supply Management, and International Business - will be introduced by 1994.

Lingnan College became a government-funded tertiary institute in 1991 when it started offering degree programmes in Translation and Social Sciences, for which about 150 students were accepted.