Extract from
Thursday, 20
Adersory Committee on Educatini
Bamis.
Mimiki's
in the 203
1409 December, 1945, at 10.45am
Mealing, held
● Item 3. Adorsins dicis. (6) Onal. ver. Com
as follows: -
reported
(7) Higher
Education.
a) The University of Hong Kong The Committee had already been informed that it was decided to constitute a small advisory body in London to give advice immediately following the liberation on the rehabilitation of some of the studies carried cut by the University of Hong Kong before the occupation. This body had now been formed. Since the liberation and the return of Mr. Sloss to England the position had to some extent altered and the Secretary of State had decided to expand the Committee, which had not begun its meetings, into a Hong Kong University Advisory Committee to advise him during the next few months, not only on points of detail, but on the broader question as to whether the University of Hong Kong, as such, shoull continue to exist, and, if so, by what policy it should be guided. Mr. Sloss had mentioned at the previous mecting of the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonics his personal opinion that unless much more powerful support were given to the idea of ostablishing a University which
might bo adequately representative of British achievements and which would maintain British Prestige and influence in China, it would be better if the limited needs of Hong Kong itself could be mot in other ways than by a University.
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