Committee
Educalien
Exchi out.
from
Draft
Minutes
of
90h
|
Aduvay
helet
261h
January
1939.
53611/38 14K. meeting of
Inspectors the desirability of appointing a woman
Inspector could be considered in the light of the
opinion of the Advisory Committee."
(a) Mr. Mayhew reported as follows:
Calenies
(i) Hong Kong University. When the Report
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of the University Committee (1937) was published last year
it had aroused opposition in certain quarters in the
Colony, and had given rise to a suggestion by the
Advisory Committee that a review of its findings, and
of the whole question of University policy, in the light
of expert opinion from this country was needed.
This suggestion had been communicated by the
Secretary of state, shortly after publication of the
Report, to the Hong Kong Government, hich deprecated
such a course at present on the grounds that there was
definite evidence of the existence in Hong Kong of a
strong public opinion against any delay in proceeding
with the internal reforms of the University which had
been recommended, and that, if there were any suspicion
that the Report were to be side-tracked, the result
might be the resignation of most of the European unofficial
members of the Court and Council of the University,
and possibly also of certain of the Chinese members.
For this reason, and in view of the concurrence
of both the Governor and the Vice-Chancellor in the action
which was proposed to be taken by the University authorities
on the Report, it had been decided to adopt the Governor's
strong recommendation that the suggestion of an enquiry by
outside experts in the near future should not be pursued
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