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examinations of the Institutions of Mechanical Engineers and of Electrical Engineers, the City and Guilds of London Institute, the Institute of Building and the London Chamber of Commerce. Post-Secondary Colleges are post-war institutions, the impetus behind their establishment being the influx of students and university staff from China during the years 1947-50. The present enrolment in the colleges is 3,842. The Post-Secondary Colleges Ordinance, 1960, provided for the registration and control of the Colleges and for their consequent exemption from the Education Ordinance. The object of this new ordinance is to give statutory recognition to those institutions whose status approaches, but does not attain, that of a university. Three of the colleges now receive government grants. Admission is through a Joint Entry Examina- tion; 1,110 candidates sat the examination during the year and 497 passed. The Grant Colleges also administered a Joint Diploma Examination which 169 entered and 138 passed. A Joint Establish- ment Board, which had been formed under the Ordinance, advised them on establishments and the grading of teachers.
The University of Hong Kong began its life largely with financial assistance from generous friends and benefactors and has since had the substantial support of recurrent and non-recurrent grants from the Government. Recurrent expenditure for the academic year 1959-60 was about $12,000,000, the Government subvention towards recurrent expenditure being $5,800,000 and the budgeted capital subvention $3,000,000. Grants of Crown Land have been made from time to time; the central University estate now covers an area of about forty acres, and other estates almost nine acres.
There are four faculties: Arts, Science, Medicine, and Engineer- ing and Architecture. Enrolments in October 1960 were 573, 184, 311 and 166 respectively. The Institute of Oriental Studies had 31 students, the Education Diploma and Certificate courses 120 and the Social Study course 22, giving a total of 1,407 under- graduate and post-graduate students, of whom 140 were part-time. 371 students (26.4%) were women. Most of the undergraduates are Chinese but several other races are represented, particularly from south-east Asia. About 370 students receive financial aid in the form of scholarships and bursaries. With the increasing numbers qualifying for entrance from the schools, Government and the University have agreed on a programme of expansion