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The Governor's despatch states that it had been found impossible to organise adequate apprenticeship in industrial engineering in Hong Kong and that the Council and Court accepted the view that an adequate supply of industrial engineers could be maintained if the University of Hong Kong were able to give scholarships to assist students who had shown definite merit in the intermediate examination in Engineering, to be held in Hong Kong by the University of London. The purpose of such scholarships would be to enable the holders to complete their education in industrial engineering in England.
The Report stated that "the Arts Degree is now considered to be little more than the crowning of Hong Kong's Secondary Education". They proposed that there should be rigorous pruning in this faculty and that its curriculum should cease to be moulded so closely on the lines of an English University. Further the report considered that there were far too many full Professors in the Faculty. The Senate opposed the se recommendations but the Council resolved that unless there was a development of advance work in the se departments the Professorships of Chemistry, Physics and of Mathematics should, when they fall vacant, be suspended and that Lectureships or Readerships should be substituted for them. Further the Council resolved that the development of good schools of English and Chinese in the University was an essential need. The Council and the Court felt that hitherto the University had tended to stress exclusively the practical and technological quality of its course.
The Council resolved that a Department of Preventative Medicine shall be instituted in the University and that one of its most important functions should be social hygiene propaganda.
The Report commented adversely on the training of teachers in the University. The Governor has appointed a Committee to make proposals for the improvement of the training of teachers in the Colony and the recommendations of this Committee will be submitted to the S. of S. shortly.
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