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Extra Mural teaching
The ama iness of the English and Chinese educated population marks a limit of what can be done in the way of extra-ural teaching. Before the war little was attempted but work done by the University staff in prisoner-of-ar and internment camps not only had a temporary value in the conditions that existed, but laid the foundations for promising development of extra-mural University teaching among the Luropean part of the population of the Colony. Experiment is now called for in the provision of courses of a like kind in Chinese for people who have not sufficient English to profit by courses in English. It is to be remembered that there is a very considerable population or Chinese who have no English but are well read in the Chinese Classics, History and Philosophy. If the University can interest such people in restern
experience especially in economics, politics and social philosophy generally, it will do a service in the great developments China, and in a saller way, liong song now face. But extra-aural work like internal work, must be of true University standard. If it is to be done to a considerable extent by the staff of University Departments the estimates we have given wil. have to be slightly increased or internal teaching and research may suffer. If extra-mural work is to be developed as an important part of the Univer- sity's work there must be a special staff, both adzinistrative z and teaching, of University quality and rank.