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Colony is high and it is considered that this is
largely due to the University. There still appears to
be room in the Colony for increased medical provision
and a larger number of doctors, in spite of doubts which
have been raised as to this. It is proposed also that
students should be fncouraged to return to China after
graduation.
mainly
Recommendations have been considered that the
Clinical Professors and medical teaching staff of the
University should be Government servants, i.e. members
of the medical service with langely teaching duties.
The Committee consider, however, that the present compromised arrangement by which certain wards in the
Government Hospital are maintained for the use of the
Faculty should be continued.
Arts.
It appears that the Arts degree is now
considered to be little more than the crowning of Hong
Kong's secondary education. In this case a closer
liaison with the Government Education Department appears
to be desirable. The Director of Education, who is
ex officio a member of the Senate, should have some say
in the Arts Faculty, while the University should have
greater influence on the Colony's pre-graduate education.
The curriculum is modelled too closely on that of an
English University. Many of the courses have no real
interest for Chinese. It is doubtful whether the
Department of Commerce can justify its existence and
the courses bear no real relation to the actual practice
of commerce in China.
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