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SOCIAL SERVICES
EDUCATION
Government expenditure on education has risen from $9 million for the financial year 1947-8 to an estimated $19 million for the year 1951-2. In addition the Government made its usual grant of $1,500,000 to the University. Fees payable in Government and grant-aided secondary and primary schools remained unchanged during
1951.
The University
The University of Hong Kong, which developed from the Hong Kong College of Medicine founded in 1887, was incorporated in 1911 and formally opened in 1912.
By ordinance the Governor of Hong Kong is Chancellor of the University of which the governing body is the Court presided over by the Chancellor and including, apart from nominated and ex-officio
whom are members, certain life members among
some of the University's principal benefactors. On the Council, which is the executive body, the Deans of the Faculties, the Colonial Secretary, the Financial Secretary and prominent members of the community as appointed by the Chancellor are represented, and in the Senate the Director of Education is an ex-officio member.
The academic year 1950-1 saw the beginning of large-scale development in the University. A grant of £250,000 was made from Colonial Development and Welfare funds, which, together with a previous Treasury grant of £250,000, will cover the capital needs of a programme of development supported by the Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies. A further grant by His Majesty's Government of £1,000,000, from Japanese assets in the Colony, was announced for addition to the University's Endowment Fund.
The total enrolment is 871 students, compared with 715 in the previous year.
Of these 423 are studying Medicine, 216 Arts, 83
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