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EDUCATION
university in which the medium of teaching would be mainly Chinese, forwarded its report in February 1963. Recommendations were made that a federal university should be established in Hong Kong, incorporating as foundation colleges, Chung Chi College, New Asia College and the United College of Hong Kong; and that the date for the establishment of the new University should be not later than 30th September 1963. Government accepted in principle the recommendations of the report of the Fulton Com- mission on 14th June and a provisional council was officially formed on 24th June.
On 3rd November it was announced that, in accordance with the advice of the selection committee appointed to select a Vice- Chancellor, the Governor had appointed Professor Li Choh-ming of the University of California at Berkeley to be the first Vice- Chancellor of the Chinese University.
SCHOOL EXPANSION PROGRAMME
In September 565,246 children were enrolled in primary day and night schools, while the census projection figures for the same date indicated 553,300 children in the primary age group of 6 -11 years inclusive, and 452,700 in the age group of 7-11 years in- clusive. The latter age group is significant because the scheme for the re-organization of primary education, introduced in September, raised the normal age of entry to government and aided schools
to seven.
From these figures it appears that Hong Kong has more than satisfied the need for a place in a government, aided or private primary school for every child of primary age. But many of the enrolled primary school children are either over-age, or remain in school for a longer period than that prescribed for the primary school course. Thus it is still possible for a child of primary age to experience considerable difficulty in finding a school place or to be without schooling. Another factor which aggravates the problem of providing primary school places is the movement of population caused by the resettlement programme and by schemes for low-cost housing as well as by the growth of new centres of population in the New Territories. This is resulting in marked shifts of population.