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also desirable not only in order to provide facilities for pre-medical studies of students intending to take the medical courses later, but also to provide teachers on the science side. This would involve the provision of laboratory equipment, as well as the engagement of staff. Such laboratory equipment might also be available for the use of the Medical faculty. Dr. Kauntze said that he thought adequate medical equipment could be made available from this country. Dr. Kauntze also raised the question of degroos, nurses. He thought it desirable that some similar steps should be taken to recognise the training that had been given in China.
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The early re-establishment of the Arts faculty was considered desirable not only in connection with the training of teachers but also on general political grounds. Here again it was agreed that Arts degrees taken at Chinese Universities should be recognised in the same way as medical degrees.
It was agreed that it is very desirable that pre-matriculation courses should be established as soon as possible and arrangements made for the holding of matriculation examinations or examinations which would be regarded as equivalents, and that an instruction on this point should be included in the directives issued to the C.C.A.0.
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The postponement of the restoration of the Engineering faculty was considered justified on the grounds that local engineering needs could be met by other arrangements, and particularly because the Engineering faculty requires large quantities of heavy equipment which rapidly becomes out of date.
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Mr. Mors e made the point that when the engineering faculty is started again, the aims should be clear. It seemed that before the war only a minute proportion of engineering graduates succeeded in getting appropriate jobs in China, the important posts were always given to engineers with a Western training.
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It was agreed that- plans for the restitution of teaching facilities, to the extent indicated above, should be the responsibility of a body representative of the University itself rather than of the Colonial Office, or of the future Hong Kong Administration. It would no doubt be
possible, by Order in Council, to endow such a body with statutory powers to act in the name of the University. It was, however, thought that it would probably be unnecessary to take this step if persons could be found to serve on a body, which would be set up informally by the Colonial Office, and who would be prepared to act in the faith that their actions will be ratified by the University authorities on the liberation of Hong Kong. It was pointed out that a precedent for this kind of organisation exists in the Singapore and Penang Harbour Boards Advisory Committee.
It was agreed that apart from an Advisory Committee of this character there would be a need for the full-time employment of planning staff to make recommendations in regard to the assembling of staff and equipment, and the priority to be given to various categories of students. One of the first functions of the Advisory Committee would be to decide what staff would be required. It was agreed that it would be convenient for such staff to be accommodated at No. 2 Park Street, with the Hong Kong Planning Unit.
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