CO129-593-2 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45. Includes 32 photographs depicting-... 10-1-1945 - 20-1-1946 — Page 192

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Britain to assist the Chinese Universities in their present needs.

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(1)

We

Co-operation can be furthered in the appointment and interchange of staff. recommend that the policy of the University should be to utilize on its teaching staff the services of its own selected graduates and graduates of Chinese Universities, after post- graduate training in Great Britain, provided the essentially British character of the University is maintained by the retention of a large British element on the staff. We hope also that the transfer of Chinese staff between Hong Kong and the Chinese universities will be a not uncommon method of recruitment hereafter.

Univer-

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Staff and the Inter- change

of Teachers.

(11) Interchange of teachers; Exchange of teachers with Chinese Universities is highly desirable. We are assured that the Sino-Briti sh Cultural Relations Association would not only help in arranging such interchange but that it .would be willing to supplement the salaries of

Chinese scholars who undertake work, for six months, or, better, for a year, in Hong Kong. Responsibility for the costs of travel would be a matter for discussion between the Universities involved in the exchange. Further, the Associa- tion would willingly help to make arrangements for members of this University who would wish to spend any portion of their leave in visiting and lecturing at Chinese Universities.

For a fuller consideration of these matters and of matters arising out of projects to invite distinguished British scholars to make lecturing tours of the Chinese Universities including Hong Kong, a joint committee of this University and

of

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