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university for Chinese(Overseas) students.
If Hong
Kong were drawing Chinese students from overseas in a
positive sense like a magnet, that would be a very
profound argument. On the other hand, he would like
to raise the question whether the number of students
going to Hong Kong from overseas was not rather the
result of clashes overseas than the positive quality
of Hong Kong. He had in mind Malaya. The tast
speaker had referred to Hong Kong serving m a
university for Malaya. A very large number of
medical students went to Hong Kong from Malaya.
8_series-of-years Before the war there were as many
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admitted from Malaya to Hong Kong as to the Medical
School at Singapore.
The reasors for this,
Dr. Channon-understood it, was two-fold: firstly,
Ford
the overwhelming reason that the Government of Malaya
had laid down the annual entiries to the Medical School,
with the result that not everyone who wanted to do be thought pasting medicine could do so. The second reason was that the cost of education in Hong Kong was very much lower
than in Singapore because of the relative-rote of the
inter-dollar exchange.
If the as the case, and that
applied to students from other areas tack of local
facilities-it put the thing in rather a different
perspective to Hong Kong drawing students from over-
He would like to put his view before the
Committee that he thought it of profound importance
that there should be a University of Malay within the
shortest possible time. In Malaya you had another
Hong Kong in Singapore, with a similar background, and
behind a country about the size of England and Wales
with a population of about five million people. The
educational material was available for rapid university
development as he saw it. While in the fullest
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