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the establishment of Raffles College in 1928, Malayan
students were sent to Hong Kong for training an
teachers by the Government of the Straits
Settlements.
Further it is relevant to mention that
between 30 and 40 per cent of all the students at
Hong Kong University are derived from Malaya, and so
far as we could determine, these students return to
Malaya after the completion of their studies at
Long rong. If there should later be a sufficient increase in the employment available for Asiatic engineers in Malaya to justify the establishment of a School of Engineering, there is little doubt that the
school at Hong Kong would suffer as a result.
Further it may be of value to mention that the
information in Section 65 shows that any increase in
the number of students admitted to the Medical
College at Singapore might and probably would have a
serious effect on the entry to the Medical School
at Hong Kong.
10. In Section 103 we have recommended the teaching
of Chinene as an optional subject in the English
achools and in Section 45 the appointment of a
Professor of Chinese at Raffles College, in order that teachers of this language may be adequately trained,
To consider that the educational reasons stated in
Section 108 amply justify these recommendations.
We also believe that the acknowledgement of the need
for instruction in Chinese will prove a far sighted
policy. It will lead to Chinese being taught to
the pupils of the schools by teachers who have
themselves spent 11 years at an English school followed
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