CO129-583-18 Hong Kong University- British Council and Rhodes Scholarships 1-1-1940 - 31-12-1941 — Page 20

Any reply to this Letter should be addressed to

THE ASSISTANT REGISTRAR.

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University Registry

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24 December, 1940.

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In reply to your letter of 20 December a graduate of Hong Kong University whose degree is not approved for Senior Status and whose matriculation qualification to Hong Kong does not satisfy the conditions for exemption from Responsions would not thereby be excluded from consideration for Senior Status. There is a clause in the Statute now which permits Senior Status to be granted to any student, not normally eligible (i.e. by the possession of an approved degree obtained after a course of study extending over three years) who is able to satisfy the Hebdomadal Council that he is particularly well qualified for that status

Similar provision exists for admission as a research student for the degrees of B.Litt., or B.Sc.; in these cases a Board has power in exceptional circumstances, to admit a person not normally qualified for such admission, who satisfies it that he is qualified to enter on a course

of special study and research.

The point I was anxious to stress in my letter to Lord Elton was that these Hong Kong graduates would probably not automatically be qualified for exemption from Responsions, or for Senior Status, or for admission as students for research degrees, a position which does not arise in the case of the ordinary Rhodes Scholar.

Yours sincerely,

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C.W.M.Cox Esq., The Colonial Office 29 Queen Anne's Gate S.W.1.

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