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scholarships (six for training in the Teaching of English as a second language) and five Sino-British Fellowship Trust scholar- ships, including two for Chinese University staff members, were awarded for post-graduate studies in the United Kingdom. In addition, the council arranged three visits to the UK under the Commonwealth University Interchange Scheme. In the reverse direction some 12 specialists from Britain visited the Colony under council auspices for lecture engagements and consultations with government departments and local experts in their fields. Subjects covered included medicine, medical rehabilitation, parliamentary procedure, town planning, engineering, community service, law and sport.
The combined book stocks in Victoria and Kowloon Libraries reached 30,000 and membership included well over 5,000 full-time secondary and post-secondary students for whom the libraries especially cater. The reading rooms, which contain some 240 British periodicals, were widely used by both students and the general public. Film, speech record and tape libraries offered a valuable service to educational institutions and local societies, and feature films, including three of Shakespearean plays, were shown to several thousand students. The recorded music collection was brought up-to-date with a considerable number of stereo recordings.
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Presentations to a total value of HK$45,000 were made to The Chinese University of Hong Kong, to the Prisons Department and to the Educational Television Section of the Education Department. Exhibitions of the English Language Book Society's low-priced textbooks, arranged at the three Colleges of The Chinese University, Hong Kong University and Hong Kong Technical College, aroused wide interest among students. A complete set of these textbooks was subsequently presented to the Central Library of The Chinese University.
An important part of the council's work is to give advice and information to students who leave for higher studies in the UK. In addition to the many students assisted during the course of the year the council offered an 'Introduction to Britain' course in the summer which was attended by more than 100 students. Close co-operation was maintained with Education Department and