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were invited to Hong Kong to advise three Post-Secondary Colleges, Chung Chi, New Asia, and United College, on the development of their courses and syllabuses. Admission to these colleges is through a Joint Entry Examination. In July, 1,023 candidates sat the examination and 546 passed. During the year, these three Grant Colleges held their Joint Diploma Examination for which 266 entered and 207 passed. The Post-Secondary Grant Colleges Joint Establishment Board advised on establishments and the grading of teachers, and a Chinese University Preparatory Committee was set up in June 1961. It is hoped that a commission will visit Hong Kong in 1962 to investigate the grant colleges and, if a satisfactory report is made on one or more of them, to advise on the establishment of a federal type University.
The University of Hong Kong began its life with financial assistance from generous friends and benefactors and has since received substantial recurrent and non-recurrent grants from Government. Recurrent expenditure for the academic year 1960-1 was about $13,500,000-the Government subvention towards re- current expenditure being $5,800,000 and the budgeted capital sub- vention $3,100,000. Grants of land have been made from time to time; the central University estate now covers an area of about 40 acres, and other estates almost 12 acres.
There are four faculties: Arts, Science, Medicine, and Engineer- ing and Architecture. Enrolments in each faculty in October 1961, were 631, 230, 353 and 201 respectively. The Institute of Oriental Studies had 74 students, the Education Diploma and Certificate courses 81, and the Social Study courses 20, giving a total of 1,590 undergraduate and post-graduate students, of whom 93 were part- time and 25 were external students. Four hundred and fifty five students (22.3%) were women. Most of the undergraduates are Chinese, but several other nationalities are represented, particularly from south-east Asia. With the increasing numbers qualifying for entrance from the schools, Government and the University have agreed on a programme of expansion which will raise the number of undergraduates to about 1,800 by 1966. The number of full-time teaching staff, including demonstrators, is 289. Over 70 of these are the University's own graduates.
The University celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 1961. In January the Executive Council of the Association of Universities of the