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Faculties :f Science and Engineering.
POST-GRADUATE DEPARTMENTS;
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In recommending the establishment of two specifically post-graduate Departments we are not suggesting that post-gradunt Courses should be limited to those provided by them. We have indeed already indicated some of the lines
upon which we think that post-graduate work would be particularly desirable. in the yep Itment which we have clay by instanged. The two specifically post-graduate Departments to which we wish so refer are those of Education and Social Studies.
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The Department of Education for the time being can, perhaps, dest be organised within the Faculty of Arts. Its function would be to train graduates of the University for work in Hong Kong schools in the increasing numbers for mich there is-
and also graduates of Chinese Universities for work in secondary schools in China. It has been brought to our notice
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that the Chinese Ministry of Education is concerned that English should be well taught in the schools in its charge. It is a reasonable hope that Chinese graduates would not only be trained in English phonetics and in a modern approach to language teaching, but would gain that appreciṛtion of English ideas and habits f thought that would give vitality to their teaching. It will be for the Senate to consider whether the normal one
would year course for a Diploma ought not to be lengthened to two years for graduates who desire and can give the time to widen their knowledge of English literature and thought.
The training for other school subjects will, of necessity depend for its effcctiveness upon the aid and stimulus that will come from such membra the Departments in the culties of Arts Scienct vent interest in teachin, method in their own subjecte.
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Social Studies. Hong Kong graduates in Social Science would be admirably projared for this, but it should not be confined to them. The groups of studies proposed include Bractical field studies ne se rch in Government hdministration, and in contemporary social and economic conditions with special referens to Ching and Hong Kong., In the scheme, which we envisngi, the entef cuph sis will fit on actual #opHing institutiong without
cupirsis neglgety HİTETİNciples emboticd then in. The staff would be that of the Department of social Sciences in the first instance.
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43.44It is important that all these studies, but especially those in the social Sciences, should be pursued with complete objectivity and that there should be no attempt at political control of the expression of opinion by the staff in the ir lectures and writings... If that is impossiblę
If that is impossible, it would be better to have nɔ Social Studies and, indeed, no University.
4 The staff that we would suggest as the minimum capable of carrying out this scheme in the Faculty, keeping in mind the
obligation
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