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able to offer a post graduate Diploma in Public Health

worthy of recognition in the United Kingdom.

Provision

for 9 studentships, tenable for one year, would add to its

success as a contribution to the welfare of China.

B.

Engineering Faculty.

The

The Committee approve the University's resolution

to suspend degree courses in Mechanical and Electrical

Engineering and to offer instead one or two scholarships

annually for the study of these subjects in London.

University should concentrate on the training of Civil

Engineers, but should be prepared to reconstitute the

separate electrical and mechanical engineering branches

as soon as recruitment of students warrants it or if an

authoritative request is received from China for the train-

ing of men in such work, for the purpose of reconstruction

when the present war is over.

The appointment of graduates of the University by

the Hong Kong Government to the cadre of Assistant Engineers

would give the degree in the eyes of Chinese officials such

a status as would help towards the appointment of Hong Kong

Engineering graduates in China itself.

C. Science Faculty.

Hitherto the teaching of pure science has been

subordinated to the interests of Engineering and Medicine,

and has been further limited by unsatisfactory laboratories

But the University has already inaugurated a separate

Faculty of Science and made provision for the building and

equipment