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EDUCATION
The Medical Library and Student Centre at Sassoon Road was opened in February. The Medical Library houses approximately 16,000 volumes of books and periodicals on medical subjects and has a reading room with a seating capacity of 100. The Student Centre contains accommodation for students serving medical clerkships in Queen Mary Hospital, together with the Medical Faculty offices and a student canteen.
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 is well advanced. It will be established at Sha Tin in the New Terri- tories 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 receives contributions of funds from outside sources to establish scholarships and bursaries, as well as financial support given by international establishments for individual projects of research undertaken by its research centres. The colleges are also 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 1,928. The enrolment in each faculty is: arts, 549; science, 586; commerce and social science, 793. At the post-graduate level there are 33 students in the Graduate School and 17 in the School of Education, both schools being under the direct management of the university. In the matriculation examination held in the summer of 1966, a total of 1,803 candidates sat and 908 passed. The total number of first-year students in the current academic year is 491.
The Technical College has a total enrolment of 13,417 students in 99 courses, comprising 1,572 full-time students in 58 classes, 258 part-time day students in 13 classes and 11,587 evening students in 386 classes distributed in 22 centres. The college has seven depart- ments: building, surveying and structural engineering; commerce;