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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER
1938.
Hongkong University Reforms HATS CLEARANCE
Governor's Memorandum To Secretary of State
IMPORTANT REORGANISATION CONTAINED IN SERIES
OF RESOLUTIONS
Council was
courses in chemistry, physics, mathe-understand that the matles and other subjceta and. will content to abstain from passing any no longer have to give up the work resolution on this issue. The Com- of the final years in these subjects mittee, as has been already stated, In order to devote themselves to the did not accept the conclusion of the study of the theory and practice of University Committee (1037) Report education.
but, on the contrary, has advocated A second proposal that bears upon a wide extension of the training of these contingent proposals affecting teachers for Anglo-Chinese and the Department chemistry, physics and mathematics Government Education is in resolution XXIV (d) (1). 11 will increase the responsibility and was felt that to end the grouping of the volume of work in be done by
University Department the selences in on Arts Faculty, to the develop a separate Faculty of en-Education. gineering and selence and
"I invite particular attention to the might Court's resolution No. III. This stimulate the study of the selences, resolution was moved in the Council
the This change in
grouping of by the Honourable Mr. M. K. Lo and studies also provides an adequate was passed unanimously. The Coun. and the Court deliberately ganized the more restricted engineer-obstained from expressingt opinions framework within which can be or- cil Ing teaching proposed for the im- on any resolution of the Senate which mediate future.
did not call for specifte action by the
."
IMPORTANT re-organisation of the Hongkong University is suggested in a series sillute degree in science
of resolutions adopted by the University Court and which are embodied in a memorandum from His Excellency the Governor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies which was laid before the Legislative Council this afternoon.
University closer co-ordination of the The resolutions envisage a authorities by the establishment of small executive bodies functioning, in the one case, by the authority of the Court, and, in the other, by the authority of the Senate.
It is also proposed for the ilme being to eliminate specialised train-
ing in mechanical and electrical en-
Kincering.
approval of the Council's
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unanimously
FINANCIAL POSITION WILL
meant that the Counell gave its at- BE AFFECTED
Senate's tention in the main to the
ction. and resolutions calling for "Certain of the resolution of the these resolutions were taken in con- Court will affect the financial posi-junction with motions, proposed by tion of the University-() Resolu- the Vice-Chancellor which in almost tion V, when implemented, will mean
every case dealt with the same issues. Its The chief exception to this in the dition of the University Improves or that for the safeguarding of
capital endowment the University resolution now under consideration unless the work done in these cars hereafter must content with a less in which the Council (a) repudiated IMPOSSIBLE
ments of the University develops,
eriticism of committee's Porto "Resolution X approves the pro- The discussion in the Council cen-rate of interest than that which
(1) Resolution VII One resolution glyca the Court'e posal for the time being to eliminate rod in the second condition and in Jablained on mortgage loans in more made by the Senate and (b)
BS "derogatory of the professional proposal specialized training in mechanical and effect ignored the condition as to favoured days.
**Committee's recommendation that status" of members of the University List Professorships of Chemistry, ect. will still continue to be taught sent and in the past have done a house allowances should be reduced staff bad been read in a sense not electrical engineering. These sub-finance. These departments at pre-dissents from the University (1937) its view that comments interpreted
no work except such
() Resolution VIII proposes new intended by the committee. The Physica and Mathematics should be to the necessary, standard in the most reduced to lectureships or readership course for the degree of B.Sc. la preliminary to medical and engineere expenditure on the building of staff members of the committee, who were
At rare Intervals (civil). The summary ing studies.
all present at the Council meeting. unless the financial condition of the
have been one or two students for residences, but this should produce unless the engineering (civ University improves, or
statement of in the three brandgress work done in there departinents of
ch three year course in these subfeels an annual saving on house
(iv) accepted on behalf of his colleagues terest charges have been met.
Dean Professor Ride, the University develops.
since the institution of the University and at even rarer intervals has there ances of nearly $7,500 after all in-supported this motion which was H.E the Governor's letter to the given as enclosure No. 3 of this been a student for a fourth year Resolution XXI proposes a reduced
No! one of these depart-rate of salaries for professors, renders Faculty of Medicine. The resolution
has had the effect of removing Secretary of State for the Colonies despatch shows the major reason for course.
this change. A subsidiary reason is ments can show any record of original
posal for improved Provident Fund Sens rends in part:
tint it has been found impossible to work: In fact they have been and and lecturers but joins thereto a pro sense of grievance under which a have suffered. It is significant that, "The resolutions of the Court, which organize adequate apprenticeship in ure little more than school depart-provision for members of the Uni- number of the members of the staff
staff in Hongkong, ments doing school work,
versity
recruited In
Great at the Court meeting, dissent from Britain. The comparison inevitably is the "supreme governing body" of industrint Craduatlon, the best
TRAINING OF TEACHERS
the University, inay, for convenience so that, after
was made of the value of pensions the resolutions of the Council was
expressed by only a minority of of conument, be grouped together, men have had to be ass sted to ap-
"The proposal that they should, if of Government servants in positions in members of the University In the minutes prenticeships, chiefly in Great Bri- Resolution XXIV
The Council and the
these condillons persist, cease to be of like responsibility with professors
staff. The
group dissented shows that, with the acquiescence of tain.
ns University departments and lecturers of the University, and from the proposal to limit the area the University Council, various pro-accepted the view that an adequate treated
touching the posals intended to simplify the con- supply of industrial engineers could should be considered in conjunction a strong case was made for the im- of engineering teaching and from the
ined if the University of with two other resolutions of theprovement of the conditions on which
contingent proposal business by be maintained it duct of
Departments of Court. The first, in resolution XX University men could retire. The of University Hongkong were able to give scholar- closer ton
considerations governed the at-Chemistry, Physics and Mathematies. the the minutes, welcomes students who
ap- atitude of the Council when the ques Among ties and by the establishment ships to assist
the Bather, Governor authorities of small executive bodies functioning, show definite merit in the inter-pointment by the
by the in the one case,
authority are
relate
published of the training of cent. salary cut that still is in force report when it was first in Hongkong by to be held
improvement
are no longer heard, and in general of the Senate, the authority of the send were referred through an amendment of pose of such scholarships would be mittee has already recommended a Council, endorsed
have actively sup- four exceptions the Council's original resolution, to to enable the holders to complete complete reorganization of the Uni--the Court, was that the restoration the senior members of the staff with n committee, to be nominated by the their eduention in industrial engin versily teachers' training course and of the cut should be made by means ported the proposed changes,
in England where facilities
copies of its report will be sent to of a more liberal University contribuisregards the opinion of two men Chancellor, for further considerationeering and for
preparation of such for adequate apprentice-training are you shortly Hereafter professional tion to the
lechnical studies in education of its Eurovident Fund account absent on leave, one of whom would officers. (V) in re- have supported, the other probably imple.
solution XXIV (0) the Court resolved graduate draft amendments of the University
would have opposed. Ordinance as might be found neces-
University diploma. The proposed that the administrative costs of the
NECESSARY REFORMS, sary.
SAYS H.E. changes have already been approved University might be reduced by u by the Senate and Council of the modification of the present arrange-
hands of full-time Vice- "I may. I think, be safely claimed University, and if they are put into ment, whereby administration is in
that the reforms advocated by the operation undergraduates will be able the to complete the prescribed four-year Chancellor and a Registrar paid on
which are derived almost the scale of pay approvert for a pro- Court, Tesar of the University, vi) Re-entirely from the able and penetrat- N. L. Smith's solution XII (1) advocates the es-ing report of Mr.
In towards tablishment of an Institute of Pre-Committee (1937), go
of the tu rumedy
adjustment ventive Medicine
the the right
aims and methods. mosi conspleuous weakness of the University's So far no detailed estimate of the !! medien teaching of the University. Interdependent as many of them are, that they will succeed in cost of the Institute has been made, obtaining your complete concurrence. but manifestly the project will in- "I am aware of the suggestions volve substantial capital expenditure which were made in 1937 that an in-
academic dependent
commis-dun and substantial recurring charges.
Two related matters arising out should be invited to study the pro- blems now in question. Sir Andrew of the University Committee's
(1837) report were considered
Caldecott in his Congregational Ad- und the
the dress
of 4th of January, 1937, men- the judgments of the Council and Court are contained in resolutions tioned such a possibility and XXIV and XXVI. In the first it Questions and Answers in Parliament was resolved that it was unneces-on the date 20th of May. 1927, which sary to attempt a definition of the accompanied your note of 3rd of powers of the Vice-Chancellor, in the June, 1937, were also concerned with Fecond, that it was unnecessary to this have no hesitation in advising restrict the freedom of the Senate
the
83 of the report, gives the to report to the Court at a meeting Court's approval of the Counell's to be held early in the academic year resolution that the Professorships of commencing in September next. A Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics copy of is report will be sent to you should be reduced to lectureships or readerships unless the financial con- as soon as circumstance allows.
"The committce should be abla fhion XIX, dealing, with will be subject for a post
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of the
This
to discuss matters touching the In-you that the conclusions now reported terest
est of the University.
These re-render it unnecessary colutions arose out of the comments proposal
for such a be further considered at
in the report on the state of dis- the present time and I trust that that cipline in the University. Another view will have your concurrence. resolution arising out of the same series of considerations
L1on
tion
"I should fake this opportunity of
is in resolu- paying a tribute to Mr. D. J. Sloss the who from the moment of his arrival
con VII which lays down
of the committee that as Vice-Chancellor at the very end
has worked hereafter will deal with complaints of October, 1937,
E
whole-
of breaches of discipline levelled at heartedly towards finding solutions senior members of the sity for the many and dificult problems
Univrsity staff. The purpose of this resolu- which the Repori in question raised. tlon was to change procedure That a conclusion should have been whereby, nt present, diselplinary reached on the various Issues raised charges can be discussed in a mixed which is practically unanimous is due assembly, the Court, consisting of very largely to his energy, tact and nearly seventy members.
personality."
GIRL INJURED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
"Attention may perhaps be called to resolution XVIII. This arises in part from a belief accepted by the Council and the Court that hitherto the University has tended excessively to stress the practical and technolo gical quality of its course and has
A nine-year-old girl, Ng Kam, was falled sumclently to emphasize the severely injured by a motor car on value of a University as an instru- the Castle Peak Road yesterday. The ment of civilization in a commercial car, a public vehicle, skidded off the community. The Vice-Chancellor road, and crashed into the girl, who has on several ocensions addressed was squatting by the side of the road the members of the Court on this with her father. and on cognate matters.
DISSATISFACTION WITH TRAINING OF TEACHERS
She was taken to the Kowloon Hospital with a fractured skuli and pelvis.
Attempting to alight from a motor bus in Connaught Road yesterday, "No specific reference is made in Chan Suct-wan, a woman, fell and the Court, Minutes to
the
certain
im was taken to the Queen Mary Hos- portant matters of Univerally pital with injuries to her mouth. (1037) Committee'a ́ ́ report, but generally the reason for the omis
slons are clear. For instance para- DARING PETTY THIEF
graph 04 of the report comments on the organization of the Department
of Education within the Faculty of
Arts and recommends the abolition
of the Professorship of Education, Both in the University and outside
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Mrs. Thomas, of the Medical Off-
Street re- there has long been dissatisfaction cers' Quarters, Eastern with the work done by the University ported to the police yesterday that in the training of teachers. For this about 1.15 p.m. on Tuesday, an un- reason, in my speech of Congrega-known Chinese, representing himself Public tlon on January 7th, 1938,
employee of the an- to be an nounced my intention to appoint the Works Department, called and safd committee to which reference he had been sent to check the electric made in an earlier paragraph of this meters.
He was allowed to perform the despatch. As the University was adequately represented on this Com-work, and after he had left, it was discovered that four electric tuses mittee and as the Committee was to report directly to the Governor, and covers had been stolen..
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