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different universities of Great Britain and the Empire, as to courses of study and facilities offered, as to fees and costs of living, as to regulations regarding matriculation, etc;

(f) to collect all available information regard-

ing the credentials of Chinese students of all grades intending to study in British universities and to put them in touch with the Secretary of the Universities China Committee in England. This is important in order to save the waste of time and dis- appointments so often caused by Chinese students coming to England without knowing whether they will be accepted for gradu-

ate or post-graduate courses. The work under this head would

no doubt have to be done by the sub-committee through corres-

pondents at all the important academic centres in China, and

all such correspondents should be equipped with the necessary

information and with handbooks of the British universities.

It might be worth while to consider whether it might not be

well to cause Chinese students proposing to come to England

to be informed that their passports will not be visa'd by

British consuls unless they can I produce evidence that they

will be received in a British university or college.

(g) To collect such information regarding

the degree-standards of different Chinese universities as would

enable the Committee to decide which if any Chinese degrees

were worthy of recognition by British universities, thereby

enabling the holders of such degrees to proceed to higher

degrees in Great Britain. (It may be worthy of mention that

Liverpool University already accepts the graduation certifi-

cate of Yenching University as qualifying for admission to

the M.A.course.)

(h) to keep in touch with all the great educa- tional centres in China and also with Hong Kong (which should have a correspondent or a corresponding member of its own) and to co-operate when necessary or HESHEREES expedient not only with the Board of Trustees and with the China Foundation for