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appoint professors, lecturers and other academic officers of the University, which seems to indicate that the Council will only refer proposed appointments to the Senate after they (the Council) have made their own selection.

This

is an inversion of the procedure generally adopted in Universities and may possibly, the Board think, lead to friction between the two bodies concerned. It would

appear to the Board to be preferable that the Senate should make the first selection in accordance with rules to be made by the Council and should recommend one or more names to the Council who should then after considering the report appoint either one of the persons recommended by the Senate or someone else. Perhaps the Authorities

at Hong Kong might be asked to reconsider Statute 8 (4) in the light of what is said above.

8. There is no clause either in the Ordinance or in the Statutes defining the powers of the Vice-Chancellor and Principal. This would not perhaps be a matter of vital importance, especially at the beginning of things, were it no that Section 8 of the Ordinance and Statute 14 (2) give the Vice-Chancellor the power to act in two small matters and this being so it might perhaps be argued that it followed in strict interpretation that he had no

other powers. It appears to the Board of Education

to be of particular importance that it should be made

clear that all the academic officers of the University

other than members of the teaching staff are in the Vice-

Chancellor's department and are his subordinates. If this

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