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the basis of the qualification for such degree. On the whole question as to the relation which a University such as that designed for Hong Kong should bear to a University such as that of London and the assistance which the former may properly receive from the latter, the Board venture to refer to what is said in paragraphs 11, 12 and 13 of their letter of the 6th December 1909 (No. 27659/1909) on the subject of the reorganisation of education in Ceylon.
The Board would urge the application to the case of Hong
Kong of the general principles advocated in their letter
above referred to and in so doing they would wish to lay
special emphasis on one or two points which the application
of these principles would seem to involve.
3.
The first is that the employment of the
University of London Examiners in collaboration with the
members of the teaching staff of the Hong Kong University
does not necessarily, and certainly should not, imply that
the degrees of the Hong Kong University will be given
on the same examination papers as those which are set to
the external students of the University of London. If this
were done, then the syllabuses of the London external
examinations would simply become the curricula of the
Hong Kong University and all freedom and initiative on
the part of the latter institution would thus be destroyed.
The application of the principles advocated for Ceylon
would mean on the contrary some such arrangement as the
following:- The Hong Kong curricula would be worked
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out