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Studies has 18 full-time instructors. All the university's degrees in professional subjects (medicine, architecture, and civil, electrical and mechanical engineering) are on the same professional footing as those of universities in Britain.
In May, Professor Kenneth Robinson was appointed Vice- Chancellor in succession to Dr W. C. G. Knowles, who had agreed to serve temporarily pending a permanent appointment. Professor Robinson, who assumed his duties in October, formerly held the Chair of Commonwealth Affairs at the University of London, where he had also been Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies since 1957.
The building of the Robert Black College, a hall of residence for visiting research scholars and post-graduate students, is nearing completion. It was announced in October that Mr G. B. Endacott, formerly senior lecturer in history, had been appointed Master of the College, which is expected to be ready for use in January 1966. The Chinese University of Hong Kong was inaugurated in 1963 as a federal university in which the principal language of instruction is Chinese. It comprises New Asia College, Chung Chi College and United College. Physical planning of the new university has begun. It will be established at Ma Liu Shui in the New Territories where an extensive site has been reserved adjoining the present site of Chung Chi College. In due course the administration of the university, now accommodated in a city office, and the other two colleges will move out to this site.
The new university has few! endowments or funds of its own, but at a Congregation held on 15th October the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Li Choh-ming, announced that the Ford Foundation had made a grant of $1,700,000 for developing research activities, and that the Shell Company of Hong Kong had given $200,000 for the endowment of post-graduate scholarships in the United Kingdom. The colleges are in receipt of certain other small endowments and grants from outside sources, but apart from tuition fees, which are at a comparatively low level, government grants provide the main source of income.
The Chinese University has at present three faculties and the total undergraduate enrolment is 1,871. The enrolment in each faculty is: arts, 639, science, 579; commerce and social science,