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30th May, 1939.

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Sir,

I have the honour to refer to your despatch

No.139 of 27th April, 1939, on the subject of the

report of the Committee on the training of teachers in

Hong Kong.

2.

The assumption that the College as I prefer

to call it - will undertake the training of non -

graduate teachers for both Anglo-Chinese and vernacular

schools, post-graduate training being undertaken by the

University Department of Education, is correct.

Co-operation between the Government and University

Education Departments has been strengthened by the recent

appointment by the University Council of an Advisory

Committee on the training of teachers. Of this committee

the Director of Education and the proposed Principal of

the new Teachers' Training College are members.

3.

The relations between the staff of the Training

College and the staff of the University Education

Department have not yet been determined in detail, but

I am informed that the University is willing to allow

members of its staff to give assistance in methods of

teaching such subjects as English, Chinese and Science,

and also by means of lectures on the history and general

philosophy of education. The University is also willing

to promise its co-operation along such lines as the

later development of the scheme may require.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

MALCOLM MACDONALD, M.P.,

&C.,

&C.,

&C.