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offer honours courses organized by the Department in co-operation with the History Department, and courses for post-graduate training in methods of economic enquiry.
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that admission to ad- vanced studies in these subjects can only be made by a careful selection of students of the right habit The of mind and of considerable intelligence. recommendation is made in the belief that the (training, approximating to that given at Oxford in Modern Greats", would be of great value for men aiming at the administrative services in China.
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(iv) We also recommend that the experiment of offering summer courses for men engaged in commerce should be made.
56. (i) We approve the plan under which Edu- cation is to be no longer a single subject among many in the Arts Faculty, but the substance of a We are sure that post-graduate diploma course. adequate training of graduate teachers is only possible by a pooling of the resources of the Gov- ernment Education Department and the University We do Department for the Training of Teachers. not think that the time has come for the establish- ment of a University Department of Psychology, but are of opinion that the appointment of psychologist for work in the Government Education Department and for the training of teachers, both This graduates and undergraduates, is desirable. appointment is the more important in view of the many problems arising out of the modernizing of Chinese language teaching that require expert in- vestigation.
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(ii) We strongly urge in the interest of the University and for the service of China that special emphasis in the training of candidates for the Diploma should be upon the technique of English teaching to Chinese, and that admission be offered as freely as possible to graduates of Chinese Uni- versities who intend to become teachers of English in China. If candidates for admission were care- fully chosen for their competence in English a one- year course in the modern technique of language teaching should suffice. Deficiency in the candi- date's knowledge of English might make it
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necessary to reorganize the course to make it cover two years so that sufficient time might be given for intensive instruction in English. We would emphasize our view that the training of teachers of English is one of the most valuable services that this University can do for China.
(iii) In view of the obvious importance of phy- sical education in the Colony, we recommend that the specialists in this branch employed by the De- partment of Education, should be in charge of the work in Physical Education in the University De- partment for the Training of Teachers.
(iv) We also recommend that as frequently as possible refresher courses for teachers should be held in which the University Department for the Training of Teachers, the Chinese Department and the Government Education Department should collaborate. Accommodation should be made available for teachers from parts other than Hong Kong in the University hostels.
57. (i) We are of opinion that a Hong Kong University School of Chinese Studies, based on modern critical methods, would serve chiefly for the instruction of students from Hong Kong and the East Indies. For students from China proper, the University could offer facilities for studies, his- torical, economic and scientific, in which the British members of the staff of the University could well co-operate with the members of the Chinese Department. The Honours School in Comparative Literature, English and Chinese, may be quoted in illustration (para. 51 (ii)).
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(ii) The development of the school in under- graduate and post-graduate work, and in junction with English studies will be possible only if the Chinese Library is improved. The Professor of Chinese advocated the expenditure of a lump sum of $40,000 to purchase libraries already on loan for ten years and already in use in the Fung Ping Shan Library. The Committee considered this proposal in connexion with the general ques- But the most tion of library improvement. valuable work that the School could do would be to work directly and through the Education De- partment for a higher standard of general literacy in Chinese. The power to read Chinese freely and to
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