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students, including one at Oxford and seventeen at Cambridge. We are also informed that the Federation of British Industries, and the English Electrical and Allied Maunfacturers' Association have succeeded in arranging for the training of a first group of a few students.
Schemes for British Education of Chinese,
The following is a résumé of the schemes so far suggested for strengthening Great Britain's share in the education of Chinese :-
1. 1912. Sir Evan Spicer's proposal to found and maintain a Chinese university in Central China with 400,000%. out of the Boxer Indemnity Fund. This was rejected by the Treasury.
2. 1918. Mr. Wilton's scheme, which falls under five general heads-
(a.) Financial strengthening of certain British institutions already in existence
in China (Tien-tsin, Tsinan, Hankow, Foochow and Shanghai). (b.) Financial assistance to Hong Kong University.
(c) Establishment of a school at Canton, to act as feeder to Hong Kong
University. (d) Financial assistance to Chinese technical institutions already in existence, and encouragement by means of advice and financial assistance in the foundation of others in industrial centres.
(e.) Financial assistance to the technical department of the Peking University.
Financial assistance should take the form of a number of entrance and leaving scholarships. A large majority of the latter should be for technical training, especially in the various branches of engineering, and be tenable for three or four years in the British and Colonial universities, Hong Kong University, and the Peking University.
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Mr. Wilton is not in favour of purely British educational institutions in China; and he recommends financial assistance to purely Chinese establishments, such as the some method of co-operation with Peking University. He further recommends Chinese Chambers of Commerce, industrial companies and the guilds concerned, to be arranged by British Chambers of Commerce for the establishment and mainten- ance of technical schools."
As an endowment fund for this scheme, which he admits is an expensive one, Mr. Wilton recommends the remission of the whole of the Boxer indemnity. He recommends also the appointment of a small commission to examine thoroughly (for at least a year) the whole question of financial control, as well as the details of an educational scheme.
3. 1919. Liang Chi-Chao's proposal that Great Britain should return the out- standing amount of her share of the Boxer indemnity on condition that two modern universities should be founded in the country-one at Peking and one, perhaps, at Nanking under Sino-British joint management.
4. 1919. The Tien-tsin British Chamber of Commerce's proposal that a levy on the paid-up capital of China companies would be a fair and reasonable method of raising funds for educational purposes. They quote the instance of a fee of 0.04 dollars for each 100 dollars of paid-up capital, which is levied annually by the Hong Kong Government. If a similar rate were levied through the registrar of companies at Shanghai, they estimate that a yearly revenue of 100,000 dollars (10,0007.) could be raised. The Tien-tsin Chamber agrees with Sir John Jordan, that the financing of a scheme for British educational propaganda in China is one primarily for the merchants themselves.
5. 1920. The Department of Overseas Trade's proposal that any scheme put forward should provide for the arrival of fifty Chinese students per annum for a training course of about five years in Great Britain. Such students should be trained for one of the following vocations: civil engineering, mechanical engineering, mining engineering, electrical engineering, industrial chemistry, law, chartered accountancy.
6. The China Association's scheme (prepared by Mr. II. B. Morse), which assumes that part of our share of the Boxer indemnity will be remitted, in the same way as the American share, and that the remission will amount to 80,000, a year.
* According to Mr. Bucchok Shen, Director of La Mission scolaire chinoise en Europe ("Daily Muil, of the fat December, 1920), fifty of these are Chinese Government scholarship holders. They receive a grant of 2401. a year. Medicine and engineering are the subjects generally taken
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This sum should be paid to a Chinese commission one member of the commission should be a British subject, nominated by His Majesty's Legation, but in an advisory capacity only. The expenses of this commission should be borne by the Chinese Government in each year, one-eighth of the remitted indemnity, viz., 10,0007. should be allotted to each of four universities for students taking their studies in the English language. These universities should be (a) Tien-tsin, for Northern Mandarin; (b) Hankow, for Southern Mandarin; (e) Shanghai, for Central Coast dialects; (d) Hong Kong, for Cantonese. Provision should be made for joint Sino-British representation on the boards of control of these universities. 40,000l. a year should be allotted for fellowships for graduates of these universities proceeding to the United Kingdom for further study in universities there. While in the United King- dom these students should be under the control of a joint Sino-British Advisory Council, expenses of which should be borne by the British Government.
7. Federation of British Industries' and English Electrical and Allied Manu- facturers' schemes (already being put into practice), which arrange for the training of a first group of a few Chinese students in Great Britain.
8. The British Engineering Standards Association's proposal that His Majesty's Government should provide funds to render education for Chinese free at Anglo- Chinese colleges such as that in Tien-tsin; and to encourage graduates of such colleges to proceed to England for training in the chief steel works, and in branches of the mining industry. in civil engineering, and the administration and accounting of engineering undertakings.
LAST of Prominent Educational Institutions in China.
Names of Schools.
Yale College of Medicine Boone University University of Nauking
Autora University
St. John's University Soochow University Hong Kong University Shantung Christian University North-West China University West China Puion University
Number of Students.
Location.
Nationality.
American.
American and British,
Chinese. American.
Ç'anadian
French. American.
British,
American and British
American,
and British.
American.
British.
Quiversities.
Canton Chistian College
Government University
500 500
Canton, Kwanginng
Peking, Chibli
Chinese.
Peking University
600
Peiyang Government University
300
-Tien-tein, Chikli ́
Hunan University (Government)
190
Changsha, tunau
Yale College in China,.
1400
21
53
353
Wnchaug, Hupel
488
Nanking, Kiangst
180
Shanghai, Kiangsu
492
416
Souchow, Kiangsu
220
Hong Kong
103
Tsinan, Shautung
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355
Sianfu, Shensi Chengtu, Szechuan
Colleges and High Schools.
525
Canton, Kwangtung
Christian College
60
Hangchow, Cheklang
145
Ningpo, Chekiang
60
17
United Methodist College
120
Wenchow, Chekiang
Customs College
114
Peking, Chilli
Chinese.
Normal College
409
North China Union Theological College
17
2
Women's College
38
21
51
Tsing Hua College
624
Tien-tain, Chili.
997
87
Tungchow, Chibli
American.
190
Kulangsu, Amoy, Fukien
British.
60
American.
11
11
11
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Canton Christian College
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English Methodist College Trinity College
Anglo-Chinese College
Nankai School
North China Union College of Arts Anglo-Chinese College
Amoy Girls' High and Normal School Talmage College
87
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+
American aud British. American.
Chinese and American.
British.
Chinese.
* Similarly Sir Charles Eliot (see paper 158944 of the 5th December, 1919), insists that the Indemnity Fund, if remitted, should be given to the Chinese Government under conditions which would ensure its being used to send Chinese students to British institutions or to found schools of which we approve.
If the money were distributed directly to British educational establishments
by the British Government there would be two inconveniences (1) the Chinese Government would be Annoyed and feel no gratitude, (2) a special department would be needed to deal with the demande of all the rival educational and missionary claimants.”
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