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Thirdly, the University must continue to autonomous institution. The usual and conclusive
rguments for university auton.my need not be repeated. it is sufficient to point out that in addition to these, there are in the particular case of Hong Kong University, the fact that it would not be the university of the a fol. tomy in whien it is situ to that local governmental control would be peculiarly inappropriate that it could better surviw political changes if it were an independent, self-governing entity; an that it could mor successfully fulfil its special mission if it were formally as well as nctually to be free from government direction.
(a) The British character of the University.
254 Fourthly, the policy governing the resuscitation of
the University for its original purpose must rest in an appreciation that that purpose will be achieved by indirect and not by direct means. We The Committee does not envisage the University as representing British scholarship by means of popular lectures on British institutions or British thought; such elementary teaching is not the primary function of a university. It will have its influence by being an institution of British origin and a centre of learning linked to British stand ris and traditions; it will represent Britain, by providing access to the experience and progress of British science and scholarship and by it sclf achieving the highest possible standards in its own work, whether that work be related to specifically "British" subjects (such as the appreciation of literature through the stuly of English literature) or not.fas in the caSE of medicine ir statistics). In its undergraduate work,. the bject will be the training of students on standards accepted in the British university world, rather than the teaching of "British" or "Chinese" subjects. Equally, in its postgraduate and research work, it will act as a centre of contact between British and Chine se culture by blique rather than direct methods; it will for example nɔt Arecesorily limit its research to the study of Chinese . philosophy, or to borderline studies like comparative languages or the historical and sociological aspects of Western influence on China. Such studies are certain to arise and should be encouragel at the postgraduate level, but they are incidental to the essence of the contact, which is that British and Chinese scholars will be working in intimate collaboration with the common objective of advancing knowledge.
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Fifthly, as a university it must be open to all rigardless of race or religion, and in particul r appointments to, and promotion on, its staff shu be open
'Britis SG 117 by minit t British in Chinese It is assumed that the main medium of instruction will continue to be English. The proportion of Chinese members of the staff must be expected to rise, but it is most desirable, in view of the special purpose of the University, that there
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