The following estimates of numbers are entirely speculative and are offered only as the flowering of my imagination.
al
Year
Numbers:-
Men
Women
Total
1948......520......130.... 1950......535......145.
..650
..680
Distribu-
tion:
1948...
180.
HK
China Malaya & Chinese. Proper.
220.
Others (chiefly). Canada &
Dutch Ind.
Australia.
120.
.60
1950....
240.......210.
100.
.60
Note:-
1
Hong Kong
70..... 70..
I anticipate only a small fall in numbers from Malaya and the Dutch Indies (the proportions are as between 4 and 5 to 1) an increase (I think v ry temperately estimated) from China
This pre- and no marked increase from any other region.
supposes
that the University is on the road to development, 2) that the Hong Kong Government employs hereafter. not merely a handful of doctors and teachers but a consider- able number of these as well astadministrative officers, engineers, architects, and men and women trained to Social Science. The major British commerical concerns have shown no disposition to employ in their offices men with University training: but the major Chinese firms and Banks do so.
I am inclined to regard the totals that I have given above as maxima: that the University should restrict its growth during the earlier years of development in the interest of high standards. The last thing I can wish for my successor is a period of fighting the flood of numbers in order to be certain of adequate teaching, facilities for study and for practical training, standards and methods of examining.
On p.3 of my note the fourth line from the end, the phrase in parenthesis should read (about one fourth women).
I should perhaps add that I should expect nearly half of the Malay and Chinese Proper students to have been at Hong Kong schools. If this turns out to be a reasonably accurate guess the number of those from Hong Kong schools might be 240 + 100 + 50 + 70 = 460.
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