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The development of co-operation with

Chinese Universities

The improvement of equipment and staffing

The removal of financial and other obstacles

which impede the coming of students to

Hong Kong.

Development of co-operation with Chinese

Universities.

The Committee are firmly of the opinion that

Hong Kong University should fit into a general scheme of

Chinese University development on a basis of co-operation

as opposed to competition: and they emphasise that in their view the present is an opportune and perhaps unique time for full development in this sense, an opinion which is stressed again in Sir Geoffry Northcote's letter at 3.

As a first step towards effective co-operation

they advocate the establishment of a Central Universities

Bureau for China, whose principal functions would be the

collection and dissemination of information ariva

concerning Universities, the discussion of University educational problems in periodical conferences, and the organisation of interchanges of University teachers and

students. The latter course is recommended as being a

highly desirable method of furthering co-operation. Sino-British Cultural Relations Association would help,

financially and otherwise, in arranging these interchanges, and it is suggested that a joint Committee of the University and of the Sino-British Association should be

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