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56. Bearing in mind this aspect of the Arts Faculty being a continuation of the general education provided in the Colony's secondary schools, we feel strongly that a closer liaison with the Education Department of the Government is desirable.
57. The Director of Education is ex officio a member of the Senate, but, apart from Matricu- lation standards, it is difficult to see how the Medical and Engineering Faculties can be his concern. On the other hand if there is to be a unified general education in the Colony it would seem desirable that he should have a place in the Arts Faculty.
Resolutions of Senate and Faculties.
The Senate wishes to point out that "liaison" between the Faculty of Arts and the Education Department of the Government has long been established by the practice of appointing as external examiners and as part-time lecturers members of that department.
The Senate, bearing in mind what are the statutory powers of the Boards of the Faculties, is not convinced that the position of the Director of Education, in relation to the Board of the Faculty of Arts, is analogous to that of a repre- sentative of the Government Medical Department in relation to the Faculty of Medicine; because the training of teachers is only part of the work of the Faculty of Arts, whereas the training of doctors is the whole teaching function of the Faculty of Medicine: but on the other hand, the Senate endorses the suggestions of Paragraph 58, and thinks that the University's Professor of Education should be a member of the Board of Education of the Colony.
Resolutions of Council.
Resolved that closer liason between the Uni- versity and the Government Education Depart- ment can best be achieved by closer co-operation in the training of graduates and undergraduate teachers in a common institution whereby the teaching resources of the University may be used to a fuller degree than at present and Depart- mental schools much more fully used for demon- stration lessons and for the training of graduate and undergraduate students in the art of teaching.
Resolved that in pursuance of the power of the University under paragraph 7 of Section + of the University Ordinance—
(a) at the request of the Education Depart- ment the University should arrange for co-opera- tion with Officers of the Education Department in the inspection of the schools of the Colony from which alone candidates would be admitted to the University Matriculation Examination.
(b) at the request of the Education Depart- ment the University should give facilities to its Professors and Lecturers to inspect and report on the teaching of particular subjects in the schools of the Colony.
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58. To strengthen that liaison we consider that steps should be taken to implement the University's authority, under section 4 (7) of the Ordinance, to have some say in the pre-graduate education of the Colony.
59. In particular it seems essential that the Chinese School at the University should become less of a watertight compartment than at present. We contemplate the teaching of Chinese in the Colony, and the relation of that teaching to English studies, as a well thought out and unified system reaching from the elementary school to University graduation.
60.
On the basis of calculation already em- ployed in the other Faculties the cost of the Arts Faculty for the month of January, 1937, was over $14,000 and the total number of students in the Faculty in the same month was 114.
Resolutions of Senate and Faculties.
The Senate wishes to recall that in 1931 a committee considered and reported on the posi- tion of Chinese Studies, and that as a result of the finding of that committee, provision was made for linking and comparing Chinese courses with Western courses in new Groups of Studies specially created for the purpose; and that this work has been facilitated by recent appointments in the School of Chinese Studies, where the Chinese professor and lecturers appointed are men thoroughly conversant with western culture and with the English language.
The Senate would like to be informed of the exact basis of calculation on which the separate cost of each Faculty was estimated, especially with reference to "the appropriate portions taken of certain courses shared with other Facul- ties"
(para. 23), as any apportionment of such cost between the Faculties is likely to be most inequitable unless it is made in proportion to the actual numbers from each Faculty who attend courses which in some Faculties are compulsory and therefore taken by all students, but in other Faculties are optional, and taken by very few.
Resolutions of Council.
That at the request of the Education Depart-
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ment the University would give fac report on
professors and lecturers to inspect
the teaching of particular subjects in the schools of the Colony.
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