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Report by the Ma *Jogy Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Bäucational Institutions
in Malaya and Hong Kong.
1. We were corroned as an informal Committee to examine and advise upon the arrangements to be made for the resumption of the activities of Hong Kong University and other institutions offering higher educational facilities there and in Malaya on the reoccupation of those territories.
2. We were informed that it was desirable that regard should be had both to the important part which the Hong Kong University might play in the furtherance of Anglo-Chinese relations and to the longer range requirements of Hong Kong and Malaya in the field of higher education, and that we were not, therefore, restricted to the consideration or the problems which will arise immediately on the reoccupation of Hong Kong and Mɛlaya, but were free to submit such recommendations as seemed to us to be appropriate.
3. For the purposes of our deliberations and recomenda- tions we interpreted the term 'higher education' broadly to Include not only post-secondary but also technical and vocational education.
4. We examined the broad functions that Hong Kong University was designed to fulfil and the extent to which
hose functions had been fulfilled in the past, up to the time of the Japanese occupation.
5. 19 conceived Hong Kong University to e an institution designed to provide
(a) University educa:ion of British inspiration for
students from China,
(b)
technical teaching in medicine, education and
engineering,
(c) higher education of general character for students from Hong Kong, Malaya, the Netherlands Tast Indies and East Asia generally.
6.
We could not escape the conclusion that the first of these functions had not been fulfilled to any great extent.
7.
This partial failure and the failure to achieve any effective co-operation with Chinese Universities, except during the period of the Sino-Japanese "inciâ nt", vere, in our opinion, largely due to (a) the growth of natiol sentiment and political selfconsciousness in China since the Re elution, (b) he difference of spoken languages and (c) the high cos. of maintaining students at the Hong Kong University compared wit the cost of niversities in china which have limited the number of Chinese studete reeking admission to Hong Kong University, especially from the terior of China.
8. We were in a position to consiler only the fina cial aspect of these reasons for failure. In so doing my were mindful of the scholarships that have in the past beog avɛlable at Hong Kong University for chinese studerts from Chi, but we conded that a much more comprehensive scheme for such scholarships thar, the colony of Hong Kong sould afford would be necessary to offset the difference betwena the cost of livin
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