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(particularly in the subject of Accountancy) bear no real relation to the actual practice of commerce in China, where development of joint-stock companies lags behind and where few business organizations have been developed beyond the size which can be controlled by members of a single family.
62. We are also conscious of a certain lack of
At a later stage of
co-ordination in the Arts Faculty.
this Report we will criticize the existing practice of annually appointed Deans; and it is in this Faculty that the need both for internal discipline and for a consistent
policy seems to us to be chiefly felt.
63. Even more than in the Engineering Faculty, we feel that there are far too many full Professors in this Faculty.
640 The Arts Faculty Department of Education as at present run seems to us to be a very expensive method of turning out a few qualified teachers, and a scrutiny of the time-tables concerned only confirms that view.
We refrain from further comment except to say (a) that here even more than with the rest of the Faculty the need of close liaison with the Government Education Department is necessary if only because the Government provides the cost of the training of many of the students concerned; (b) that this Department seems to us to be much too self- contained and too independent of the rest of the Faculty; and (c) that a Professor of Education is wholly unnecessary once the subject-groups are settled and that an efficient
Master of Method available for practical training is all that is required.
65.
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The Chinese School seems to us to have promise of
a vigorous future under its able Professor. Considering its potential utility, its cost is not extravagant.
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