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heard from reliable sources when
in Hong Kong that the University
trained Chinese teacher was neither
sufficiently educated nor efficiently
trained for his work. He was inclined
with Mr. Sayer to disagree with the
view that a four-year course followed
by a one-year course for a teacher's
diploma was the shortest time in which
the pick of the local intelligentsia could
be
trained as competent teachers; four
years in all ought eventually to be
sufficient. The suggestion that five
years was a desirable time was an indication
of the vicious circle which made it very
difficult to introduce any effective
reform. The first year of the under-
graduates' course at the University was
taken up in great part in so improving the
students' English that they could follow
courses of literature at University
level in the University. They did not
really begin University degree work until
their
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