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The problems of securing for our Engineering
Graduates (a) suitable practical training, and (b)
reasonable prospects thereafter, cannot be solved by
the University alone. Hope lies only in enlisting the
interest, understanding, sympathy, and cooperation of
(1) leaders of local industry, (ii) the Colonial Government.
A representative selection of the leaders of local
industry is to be found on the Council and Court of the
University, and we take it for granted that these gentle-
men will welcome an opportunity of assisting the Univer-
sity by every means in their power.
The intimate association with the Government which
the University has enjoyed ever since its foundation in
1912 makes it seem reasonable to look to the Government
for direct assistance here. We suggest that new and
fuller facilities for the practical training of our
mechanical and electrical engineers might be provided
by the Kowloon Canton Railway, similar to those already
provided for our Civil Engineers in the P.W.D.
The Government already cooperates with the University,
in the training of its medical students, by providing in
the G.C.H. the absolutely essential facilities for clinical
experience. The impotence of our Medical Faculty without
such facilities can well be imagined! The present
difficulties of the Engineering Faculty could be greatly
minimised by appropriate Government cooperation of a
generally similar character.
40.
SECTION C.
The University's relations with
local Industry
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We entirely agree with G.R. Para, 115(2) as to the
value of closer cooperation between the University's