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Electrical Engineering should do so by way of a science degree in the appropriate subjects, with the addition of courses in the principles of Engineering and in Engineering Drawing. On graduating they should have no difficulty in obtaining entrance to the second year of an honours course in a British University. It would be far cheaper and better to provide scholarships for good students to follow this plan than to provide staff, buildings and equipment locally to meet a demand which will not be gront.
for the tuve being
J A considerable number of Civil Engineering gradultes are werking in Ching and in Hong Kong as architects or as members of constructional ongincoring firms engaged in building.
At no very great cost it would be possible to dovolop in Hong Kong a School of Architecture and Town Planning working in close association with the Department of Civil Engineering. Tho addition to the University of a Department of Architecture and Town Planning would fit in woll with the general principles that underlie the Committee's main recommendation. Hitherto the Chinose universities have done very little to develop training
in Architecture and yet China in the next few decades is going likedy
to nood the work of very large numbers of trained men. We therefore favour the establishment on a modest scale of a school of Architecture and Town Planning which would make a useful contribution to the development of Chinese architectural design, bring to Now China during its reconstruction the special experience and knowledge of town planning which has been devolopod in the Western world, and at the same time, by its local research, benefit the architecture of the West.
Sak
It is suggested that the two Departments of Civil Engineering and of Architecture and Town Planning could be conveniently grouped together to form a small separate Faculty. The Department of Architecturo and Town Planning would, of course, have very close relations with the Faculty of Arts as well.
The staff that would be required in this Faculty is:-
Civil Engineering
Professors
1
Lecturers.
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Demonstrators
1
Architecture and
Tow Planning
1
2
1 (Drawing Office)
2
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4
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UXTRA-LURAL TEACHING.
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The smallness of the English and Chinese educated population limits the amount that can be dono in the way of extra-mural teaching. Before the war little was attempted, but work done by the University staff in prisoner-of-war and internment camps not only had a temporary value in the conditions that existed, but laid the foundations for a promising development of extra-mural University teaching among the European part of the population of the Colony. Experiment is now called for in the provision of such teaching in Chinese for people who have not sufficient English to profit by courses in English. There is a very considerable population of Chinese who have no English but are woll road in the Chinese classics, history and philosophy. If the University can interest such poople in Western experionco, especially in economics,
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