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Board should hold its General Schools Examinations in Hong Kong in Jun and July of this year. The Matriculation Board has been most generous of help in allowing adjustments in its syllabuses to fit the special condition in Hong Kong and in giving the Hong Kong University the benefit of its vast experience and of its admirable machinery of examinations.
(e) Staff: Already in Hong Kong are the Professor of Gynaecology with whom, for the carrying through of certain refresher courses for students who took their final medical examinations in China, are associated officiating professors of medicine and surgery, members of the Civil Medical Depart- ment of the Colony; a senior lecturer in Physics who is to be released from Civil Administration duties as soon as the University can use his services, and some Chinese assistants. The Professors of English and Economics have sailed for Hong Kong to reopen the University office and to make pro- vision for certain parts of the teaching. The professorships of Chinese, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Pathology, Surgery, Medicine, Civil Engineering and Education are vacant. The filling of these posts is left to the action of the University Council when it is reconstituted. Inquiries for suitable candidates are continuing in the United Kingdom. Attempts are being made to fill, at an early date, the vacant Lectureships in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, History, and English, either in London or in China. The appointments will in the first case be for three years, the minimum time for which it is thought that men could be recruited. Long term appointments are left for the consideration of the appropriate Univer- sity body when it is reconstituted."
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76. We approve the action that has been taken by the Provisional Powers Committee as appropriate either to the restoration of the University or to its replacement by a series of professional schools. With the arrangements it has should made and with the staff both existing and under recruitment, it will be possible in the last months of 1946 for a minimum of higher education to be offered to meet the insistent demands of the officials and public of the Colony. We are convinced that no further action can be taken until a decision is reached on our main recommendation concerning the future of the University. While there is uncertainty whether the University is to be restored or not, it is not possible to make additional arrangements for higher education in the Colony either in the sense of further restoration of the University or in the sense of preparing substitutes for the University such as professional schools. would give as an example of the present dilemma the impossibility of recruiting senior staff for the University. Posts, both teaching and administrative, are now vacant. It is impossible to recruit for these posts on long-term appoint- ments until candidates can be informed of the kind of institution to which they would be appointed and the nature and quality of the work they would be asked to do. In the present acute shortage of academically qualified persons for higher education posts in the United Kingdom or overseas, it is obviously impossible, even if it were desirable, to find senior staff for short- term appointment in Hong Kong. Any further development however of higher education in Hong Kong, beyond the emergency arrangements already made, depends on the appointment of senior staff.
77. We are therefore unable to suggest any further action that can be taken, until a decision is reached on the main recommendation for the revival of the University. We wish to stress the urgency of the need for that decision in the interests of the Colony itself.
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HKUAĆ 7.
ĮKUAC 8.
HKUAC 9.
HKUAC 10. HKUAC 11.
HKUAC 12.
Extract from a letter dated 31st July, 1945, from Sir Andrew Caldecott,
K.C.M.G. Former Chancellor of the University.
Copy of a telegram dated 30th October from Dr. Gordon King now a member of the Civil Affairs Branch of the Military Administration in Hong Kong.
A note by Professor K. H. Digby, Professor of Surgery and Senior Member of the staff of the University, which was read to members and staff in Stanley Internment Camp.
Extract from a letter by Professor Digby.
Copy of a resolution passed at a meeting on the 21st November, 1945, of
graduates and past students of the University in Hong Kong. A later Memorandum by Dr. Gordon King dated 8th December, 1945,
on the reconstitution of the University.
HKUAC 13. Summary of Recommendations contained in the Report of a Committee appointed by the Chancellor in 1939 to consider "the Development of the University.
HKUAC 14. HKUAC 15.
Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the University of Hong Kong.
Extract from the Directive on Education issued to the Chief Civil Affairs Officer for the period of the Military Administration in Hong Kong. HKUAC 16. Note by Sir George Moss in expansion of his remarks at the first meeting
of the Committee on January 18th.
HKUAC 17. Telegram dated 28th January, addressed to Mr. D. J. Sloss by the Com-
mander in Chief, Hong Kong, Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
HKUAC 18.
HKUAC 19.
HKUAC 20.
HKUAC 21.
HKUAC 22.
HKUAC 23-
Part A. Extracts from a lecture given by Professor W. J. Hinton on April 2nd, 1941, to the Royal Central Asian Society in London on
Hong Kong's place in the British Empire”'. Part B. Extract from letter dated 22nd January, 1946, from Professor W. J. Hinton to Mr. C. W. M. Cox referring to the lectures quoted above.
Further note dated 25th January by Sir George Moss in support of his view that informal or diplomatic approaches should be made to dis- cover the extent of the support of the University which might be expected outside Hong Kong.
Extract from the Report of the 1937 Committee (which met in Hong Kong under the Chairmanship of Mr. N. L. Smith to investigate the financial position and advise on the future of the University) in con- nection with the possibilities of local specialization.
Brief note by Mr. Sloss on the Libraries of the University. Summary of recommendations contained in papers already circulated for
the extensions and development of the University in academic matters. Extract from a Report dated December, 1945, made by Dr. A. G. H. Smart late Chief Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on his visit to the Far Eastern Colonies.
Extracts from the 1937 Committee's Report on Hong Kong University in
regard to the matter of salary scales. Note on salary scales by Mr. Sloss.
HKUAC 24-
HKUAC 25.
HKUAC 26. HKUAC 27.
Note of the present and proposed Staff of the University.
Dr. Gordon King's suggestions for the reconstruction of the Medical
Library of the University.
HKUAC 28. Extract from a letter dated 24th February, 1946, from Professor Roxby
of the British Council in China to Miss Ruston (See also HKUAC 5). Plan of the proposed degree in Social Sciences.
HKUAC 29. HKUAC 30.
HKUAC 31. HKUAC 33.
Note by Mr. D. J. Sloss on the administrative machinery of the University of Hong Kong as established under an Ordinance passed in 1911 and last revised in 1937.
Note on the proceedings of the first five meetings of the Committee. Extract from a letter dated 30th March, 1946, from Dr. George Yeh, previously Professor of English at the National Pekin University and now Head of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London. HKUAC 34. Suggestions by Professor Hinton for alterations in the Constitution of
the University of Hong Kong.
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