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with specialist topics. The Committee also noted that a University Engineering Advisory Committee had been set up. Such a committee, particularly if it includes a substantial component of practising engineers knowledgable of local needs
and conditions, can be most valuable, but must be regularly
consulted if it is to be successful.
(b)
School of Law
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In the coming triennium the School will have to cope with the expansion of student intake to 80, for which a total
staff increase of 8 has been planned. The Committee welcomes the development of admitting within this intake a limited number of persons in full-time legal or law-related employment
The relatively intensive nature of
on an extended course.
teaching for the PCLL course is noted. The Committee will watch the School's progress with great interest, and believes that its standards will not be compromised by the expansion in numbers but that the additional staff members will contribute to à
widening of the scope of the school.
(c)
Music
Following the introduction of Fine Arts in the present triennium, the Committee supports the development of Music in the coming triennium. In this way the University will be responding to the growth of interest in Hong Kong in music and the performing arts, and be contributing directly to improvement of the quality of life in Hong Kong.
(d)
Computing Science
The Committee has been aware for some time of the
problems which the University of Hong Kong has had in establishing a Department of Computer Science, and in filling a chair in that discipline. Present arrangements provide for teaching in this area to be carried out by the Computer Centre, which has the
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