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Dr. Priestley expressed the view that the Is Committee's
consideration should be thing had probably got to be done in three stages.
First, a general discussion on the final long-term
discussion policy
the short heren requirements REJİSİBAS: secondly, the urgent matter of reconstruction: lastly, a final decision about long-term policy.
He
felt the Committee needed to have some idea of what
He was strongly their final decision was going to be.
of opinion that one of the mistakes that had been made
status
in the past had been the grant of the name of university
to institutions which did not rest on broadly based
It was all wrong to faculties of arts and science.
call an institution a university because it had a good
I wough]
medical school. He did feel that the Committee ought
consider
to decide this very question first, because probably shercher I was the bowerby should
if they reconstructed Hong Kong and made it serve the
only
interue of
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needs of the Colony, they had to think of it as a Soparamedical school, a teachers' training college, ete.
The needs of engineering students could best be met by taking a broad scientific training and then going on somewhere else for specialist training.
for that purposo
The Chairman asked the meeting whether they would like further data to be obtained from Hong Kong: supposing the Committee advised the reconstruction of the University as from next autumn, they might like faets as to the number of students, type of background, present condition of the buildings, position as regards equipment, etc. It might take time to obtain these details from Hong Kong, however, and the Committee might feel that it would be an advantage if someone could be flown out to look into the position on the spot and
report before any final decision was taken.
Mr. N. L. Smith raised the question of the
he saud matriculation standard, which was very high before the Japanese abolished the teaching of English or three
years.
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