CO129-524-2 Hong Kong University- financial position- Chinese studies- future of the Chinese school and the Annual... 27-1-1930 - 12-8-1930 — Page 163

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Thus the annual cost in sterling of the scholarship

scheme now ut forward may be stated:-

For the first year £1,200 + £240 + £2,000 = £3,440

11

For the second £2,400 + 3480 + £4,000 = £6,880

For the third

£3,600

+ £720 + £4,000 - £8,320

For the fourth

11

and subsequent

years

£4,800

+ £960 ♦ £4,000

24,000 = £9,760

The maximum annual cost of the reduced scholarship scheme may

be stated at about £10,000.

But here again I would remind

your Deputation that the payment to the University of all the scholarships except those tenable in Great Britain will have to be made in Hong Kong dollars.

9.

While on the subject of scholarship I venture to remind your Deputation that every scheme of educational development is governed by the supply of teachers, and that any scheme of education e xpansion which fails to take this factor into consideration is doomed to failure. The

University of Hong Kong has an education department which, in cooperation with the Education Department of the Colony

We and its schools, is beginning to do effective work. should hope that some of the scholarships for which we are now asking would be held by Chinese students who propose to

return to their homes to teach. But the staff of the

Education Department of the University badly needs strength- ening and I am constrained to press for the provision of an annually recurring sum of $12,000 for additional assistance to the Professor of Education. This represents a sterling

annual grant of about £1,200 but the payments to the assistants would have to be in Hong Kong dollars.

10.

The University cannot extend its teaching work without a new building. You have seen how congested the present buildings are and the Vice-Chancellor explained to you, that it is proposed to remove all the engineering

laboratories, lecture room etc., to the military lands,