Lanchtharabad HONG KONG UNIVERSITY NONINVERNONA
In 1912-18 the Engineering Faculty had 40 students. number had risen to 100. In 1925 the number had fallen to 40. there are 107 engineering students. The University has awarded ships of science in engineering including one to a woman.
In 1915-16 the At the moment 177 bachelor-
In 1932 a British Economic Mission toured the Far East and came to Hong Kong. In their report the Mission deplored the permeation of China by American culture and the consequent prejudice to British trade. The Mission insisted that immediate steps should be taken to increase the number of Chinese students who pass from China to universities, technical institutes and workshops in Britain. So far as British manufacturers are concerned this appeal has not fallen on deaf ears. During 1932 three of the University's engineering graduates went to student-apprenticeships in British firms. One to the British Thomson- Houston Co., Ltd., one to the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Export Co., and the third to Messrs. Norris Henty & Gardners. A fourth graduate is now on his way to join the Openshaw works of Messrs. Crossley Bros. Ltd. Messrs. Crossley Bros. are willing to take another engineering graduate as an apprentice 28 soon as a suitable graduate is available. The representative in China of Messrs. Dorman Long & Associates (China), Ltd., has since indicated that Messrs. Dorman Long & Co., Ltd., and each of the seven British engineering firms with which that company is connected, are suxious to secure University engineering graduates as apprentices.
1928 Messrs. John Swire & Sons Ltd., London, acting in co-operation with Messrs. Alfred Holt & Co., placed at the University's annual disposal two free passages to England in certain Blue Funnel steamers. Last year Messrs. Alfred Holt & Co. gave the University two more free passages, these two being confined to engineering graduates who are going to England to be apprentices. At the sug- gestion of Messrs. Alfred Holt & Co. and with the approval of the University Council, the Liverpool China Society of which Professor P. M. Roxby of the University of Liverpool is the proinoter, is calling into being a committee on which engineering employers will sit The first duty of this committee will be to secure offers of apprenticeships. Its second duty will be to maintain contact with Chinese apprentices during their stay in England and to arrange visits and short-time attachments to other works..
The Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, have recognised the B.Sc. degree of the University. This means that an engineering graduate can present himself for the Diploma of the Imperial College after one year's post- graduate work in the City and Guilds College in London.
This change of attitude on the part of British manufacturers and the spontaneous advances made by the Imperial College and the Liverpool School of Architecture, the authorities of which have approached the University for more of its students, have changed the whole outlook of the engineering faculty. The practical training difficulty should now be solved and the engineer- ing graduate who passes successfully through an apprenticeship with a good British firm should not have to look far for reasonable openings. That China should settle down is of course a proviso, but it is a proviso which conditions the University's future, and indeed the Colony's. The problem will be to train The number of all the engineering graduates for whom the firms have asked. students in the Engineering Faculty will almost certainly increase and even the
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