CO129-591-1 Hong Kong University Advisory Committee- recommendations 10-1-1944 - 5-12-1944 — Page 54

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In Malaya

The restoration of

(1) Training facilities at the Technical School, Kuala

Lumpur.

(11) The Agricultural College, Serdang,

(iii) The Forestry School, Kuala Lumpur.

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The Trade Schools, Singapore, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, began Serai, Malacca and Johore Bahru.

Evening classes in vocational subjects.

17. Our attention was drawn to the report of the Commission on Higher Education in Malaya, 1939, and we were advised that the Secretary of State had, a 1941, proposed that a policy of development along the lines favoured by that Commission should be adopted as soon as conditions permitted. We wish to be associated with that proposal and especially with the suggestion that an early decision in principle should be taken w. the central recommendation of the report, namely, the eebr.11sboent of University College in Malaya, 17 only to avoid e

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elóng lines of the report. In this connection, we suggest that the new eivoumst vees will offer the possibility of considering the esbobilazer! us part of a long-term educational policy, of a Tiversity in Melaya at or near Kuala Lumpur, which we consider vould have distinct vantages from the educational point of pleation

18. Finally we recommend thrt an expert be appointed to examine and posest on the educational buildings and equipment avultubie an soon as practicable and that his report should be available fox, and that he should be a member of, the Commission of Enquiry proposed in paragraph 10 above.

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