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56. The following is a summary of the staff required for the Faculty of Medicine:
Professors
Lecturers
Junior and Part-time
Demon- strators
Lecturers
Anatomy
I
I
2
Physiology
I
3 (including
2 or 3
i Nutrition)
Pathology
I
1 (Bacteriology)
3
Surgery
1
3 (1 General
3 ( Ear, Nose
I Ophthalmic
and Throat,
and
1 Anaesthetics
1 Orthopaedic)
1 Radiology)
Midwifery and Gynaecology
I
I
2
Medicine and Tropical
I
3
I (Paediatrics)
Medicine.
Social Medicine and Public
I
2
Health.
Pharmacology
Medical Jurisprudence
I
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addition to the University of a Department of Architecture and Town Plan- ning would fit in well with the general principles that underlie the Committee's main recommendation. Hitherto the Chinese universities have done very little to develop training in Architecture and yet China in the next few decades is likely to need 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 New China during its reconstruction the special experience and knowledge of town planning which has been developed in the Western world, and at the same time, by its local research, benefit the architecture of the West.
59. 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 Architecture and Town Planning would, of course, have very close relations with the Faculty of Arts as well.
60. The staff that would be required in this Faculty is: --
7
15
8
Professors
Lecturers
Demonstrators
8 or 9
Civil Engineering Architecture and Town Planning
I
3
3
I
2
1 (Drawing
Office)
FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE AND TOWN PLANNING. 57. There is no immediate prospect of the development of large-scale industry in Hong Kong except perhaps in shipbuilding and this is so specialized an industry as hardly to justify a local organization for the training of the few scientific experts that it will need. In the early days of the University local commercial, industrial and shipping firms contributed generously to the equip- ment of Engineering laboratories, but some of them are said to have been disappointed that the University did not produce overseers and foremen. This however is hardly the object of a University. In the early days of the University, degree courses in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering were provided, but adequate facilities did not, nor do they now, exist for the education of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers. On the other hand Civil Engineering work of a high order and of great variety has been necessary in the Colony by reason of the rapid development of a modern commercial and industrial centre in a difficult physical environment. Before the war specialised teaching in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering had been sus- pended and we are of opinion that it should be abandoned and that the Univer- sity should concentrate upon the strengthening of its Department of Civil Engineering. In our opinion such students as wish to qualify in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering should do so by way of a science degree in the appropriate subjects, with the addition of courses in the principles of Engineer- ing 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 for the time being will not be great.
58. A considerable number of Civil Engineering graduates are working in China and in Hong Kong as architects or as members of constructional engineering firms engaged in building. At no very great cost it would be possible to develop in Hong Kong a School of Architecture and Town Planning working in close association with the Department of Civil Engineering. The
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EXTRA-MURAL TEACHING.
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4
61. The smallness of the English and Chinese educated population limits the amount that can be done 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 well read in the Chinese classics, history and philosophy. If the University can interest such people in Western experience, especially in economics, politics and social philosophy generally, it will do a service in the great developments which China and, in a smaller way, Hong Kong now face. Extra-mural work, like internal work, must, however, be of true University standard. If it is to be done to a considerable extent by the staff of the University Departments, the estimates we have given will have to be slightly increased or internal teaching and research may suffer. If extra-mural work were developed on a substantial scale as part of the University's work, there would have to be special staff of University quality and rank. A Director of Extra-mural teaching would need professorial status to carry the weight he should have both outside and within the University and he would need to be supported by an adequate administrative and clerical staff, and by staff tutors to carry the main load of extra-mural teaching. It would be better not to attempt the work at all than to do it less than worthily, for no part of the University work would impinge more directly on the Chinese world.
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