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✓ we have The Committee considered whether the higher educational needs of Hong Kong itself would justify the reopening of the Univeristy. On the criterion of the appropriate are to be served by a university, suggested by the Asquith Commission (Cmd. 6647, page 13), namely capacity to supply an adequate flow of students able to profit from higher education, the Committe judge that, at present, and in any predictable future, the conditions of Hong Kong by themselves do not justify a university. On the basis of the quantitative test of the local needs for, r capacity to absorb the products of, univeristy, the mittec also judge that the Colony itself
id not require the restoration of the University. The Colony's needs of teachers, doctors and other professional specialists could be met by less expensive means by a college of medicine, training colleges, and technical institutions, combined with a scheme of scholarships to universities overseas for a number of selected students.
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The Committee we have the University to continue to serve the needs of these overseas Chinese. The evidence bef re the Committee suggest that hough ) ma string influence in the Chinese family organizatiɔnyin favour of the formative years being spent in China (or at least in a Chinese environment), the majority of these students came to Hong Kɔng because of the absence or limitation of facilities for higher education in their places of origin, because the University provided the opportunity of obtaining a degree instead of a local diploma (as for example in the case of the College of Medicine, Singapore) or because their lack of Mandarin made it difficult for them to attend the universities in China. The Commit reached the conclusion that if easily accessible alterntive facilities of university edugation became available the numbers of these overseas students
accline. Wey unli rata that the recommendations of the McLean Commissiön, endorsed by the Asquith Commission, that the ra should be a University College, and ultimately a full University in Malaya w almost certainly be implemented.
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