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to return.
Mr. Sloss pointed out that it had
been arranged with the co-operation of the Naval
Surgeon and Physician who worked in the Teaching
Hospital to run a special course for those people
who have been
who are coming back from China
badly taught
-
as it was desired to give them at
least another year.
Professor Hinton asked whether it was
proposed to start with a certain number of
medical students.
Mr. Sloss said that first-year
students could be admitted. People who were
not taking science subjects but who might
eventually take to teaching or go for social
science. Mr. Burney asked whether this would be
in spite of their not having had secondary
education. Mr. Sloss said that one Secondary
School had continued to be run by the Jesuit
Fathers but with the condition that they had to
do all their teaching in Chinese.
this year.
Mrs. Forster raised the point whether the
Secondary Schools hoped to take matriculation
Mr. Sloss said he had received a
telegram asking if they could take matriculation.
The London University held an overseas matricula-
tion and he had suggested.that.they should take
that, but he had had no reply.
Mr. Sloss said he had written about two
months ago asking for an estimate for the number
of entrants. He said two Secondary Schools were
working, one run by the Jesuit Fathers was a
large school.
There was no Government. Secondary
School and no other Secondary school beyond the
two mentioned.
Mr. Sloss thought that possibly it would be
best to compromise in order to satisfy the
people in Hong Kong, by following up the
suggestion