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RE-HABILITATION OF HONG KONG UNIVERSITY
Notes of a meeting held on Friday 29th December, 1944.
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Present:
Mr. Gent.
Dr. Kauntze. Mr. Paskin. Miss Ruston.
Mr. Morse.
Mr. MacDougall. Mr. N.L. Smith. Mr. Sedgwick. Mr. Rowell.
Colonial Office
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Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
Hong Kong Planning Unit
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Dr. Gordon King.
Hong Kong University.
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It was reported that Mr. Sloss, the Vice Chancellor of the University (now interned) had expressed the view that before any concrete plans were made for the re-habilitation of the University, a decision should be taken on the question whether in the future the University is mainly to serve the local needs of Hong Kong or whether it should be visualised as an effective medium for the expression of British policy towards China and the Far East. Mr. Sloss considers that for purely local purposes, the University as it existed before the war was too large and cumbersome, but that for any wider purposes it would need considerable expansion. In that event a very much larger and assured income beyond the capacity of the Hong Kong Government to provide would be necessary.
Mr. Gent stated that he had already suggested to the Foreign Office that consideration should now be given to the Foreign Office that consideration should now be given to the question whether the University should be expanded to serve the wider of these two purposes but that it could hardly be expected that an early decision would be reached on that issue. In the me antime it would be necessary to consider what steps should be taken to place the University in a position to meet certain urgent demands which will arise on the liberation of Hong Kong. It was agreed that, while these steps would necessarily be limited by practical considerations, care should be taken not to create the impression that we have any doubts as to the future of Hong Kong University as an increasingly flourishing institution.
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After discussion it was agreed that the faculties which should be revived as soon as practicable are the Medical, Science, and Arts faculties, leaving the re-establishment of the Engineering faculty to a later date.
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As regards the Medical faculty, it was agreed that the first consideration should be to provide staff for teaching
f ourth to sixth year students on the ground that this would be easiest to arrange and would be required to meet the urgent need of students who are at present continuing their studies at Chinese Universities, but who would probably wish to return to Hong Kong a soon as there are facilities for them to do so It was becognised that both teachers and students nearing their | Finale might at the same time here to work for government.
The early re-establishment of the Science fequitu
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