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58. To strengthen that liaison we consider that steps should be taken to implement the University's authority, under section 4(7) of the Ordinance, to have some say in the pre-graduate education of the Colony. If the Arts Faculty of the University is to become less self-contained so also must the Government's
Education Department.
59. In particular it seems essential that the Chinese School at the University should become less of a watertight compartment than at present. We contemplate the teaching of Chinese in the Colony, and the relation of that teaching to English studies, as a well thought- out and unified system reaching from the elementary school to University graduation.
60.
On the basis of calculation already employed in the other Faculties the cost of the Arts Faculty for the month of January 1937 was over $14,000 and the total number of students in the Faculty in the same month was
114.
61.
It is not easy for us to criticise such a thing as a curriculum but we are satisfied that there is need of rigorous pruning in this Faculty as soon as this can, without injustice to the existing staff, be accomplished. We have been constrained to think that as at present constituted the Faculty is following a curriculum not altogether suited for its "clientele". We feel that it has been modelled too closely on the lines of an English University, and that this induces an atmosphere of unreality. Many of the courses can have no real interest or final meaning for Chinese, and we are extremely doubtful whether the Department of Commerce can justify its existence.
The courses given therein
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