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18. The Provisional Powers Committee set up by the Secretary of State in London to deal with the affairs of the University of Hong Kong has made the following decisions:
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(a) to place orders at once for the supply, at
the earliest possible date, of essential basic equipment for elementary laboratories for Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Zoology.
(b) to arrange for a Hong Kong centre at which candidates may sit for the General School.s Examination of the University of London in June and early July, 1946. (The Overseas Department of the Matriculation Board of the University of London is already ma ing arrangements for this.)
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(c) to arrange for the return to Hong Kong ut en early date, of the Registrar and or othe. surviving Members of the University onior teaching staff.
(a) to recruit in England or in Hong Hong
preferably on short term contructo. Lecturers in Chemistry, Mathematics, Dɔtung and Zoology, History and Geography and to recall to duty in the Department in
hich n early beginning of teaching is possible, such Lecturers and Junior teachers as cre available in or about Hong Kong. The Committee recognises that recruitment on thin basis is not likely to be satis. ctory but hopes that good Chinese may be crthcoming i good candidates from this country are not to be found.
(It is a recommenuation of the Advisory Committee that all appointments should be open to Chinese and to candidates from the United Kingdom on the criterion of merit.)
(e) to proceed at the earliest possible date to
arrange for the re-equipment of the laboratories in Departments of the Faculty of Medicine and, subject to a recommendation yet to be made by the Advisory Committee, of the Faculty of Engineering.
The Advisory Committee is strongly of opinion that no attempt should be made to re-open the University and to admit students to normal courses leading to degrees of the University before the early months of 1947 by which time:
(a) it should be possible to have a decision from His Majesty's Government on the long term policy on the future of higher education in Hong Kong.
(b) laboratories should be equipped to make
possible at least an essential minimum of practical instruction in the Sciences.
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