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at Hong Kong University and in the second place of facilities
whereby selected candidates might obtain either admission to
post-graduate courses at a university in Great Britain or
apprenticeships in a British workshop.
7.
Unfortunately such facilities have been unobtain-
able in the past. Universities in Great Britain will not admit
to post-graduate courses graduates of the Hong Kong University or of any university in China; and British manufacturers while
expressing in general terms their willingness to co-operate
have in practice proved most reluctant to accept Chinese students
for practical training in their workshops. No such difficulties
are experienced in the United States or in Germany and large
numbers of students proceed every year to receive their final
training in those countries. These are matters in which this
Colony can do little without greater co-operation and concessions
than have hitherto been forthcoming from institutions in the United Kingdom.
8.
On December 2nd I invited Sir Reginald Johnston
who was then in Hong Kong to be present at a meeting at Govern-
ment House at which these matters were discussed; the Colonial
Secretary, the Vice-Chancellor of the University and the Director
of Education were also present. A record of the proceedings is
enclosed, together with a copy of the memorandum of Professor
Forster referred to in this record.
9.
It emerged from this discussion that, if any
success is to be achieved, it is necessary that the English
universities should make some concession to graduates of Hong
Kong University to enable them to take post graduate courses
in Great Britain without having taken a degree there. Sir
Reginald Johnston has promised to take this matter up on his
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