NUMBERS OF STUDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITYOF HONG KONG.
95
Steady growth:
The number of students in the University grew with remarkable evenness year t year till 1938 when the 'China Incident' resulted in a sudden large increase of applications for admission from interior China. The figures for the ten years 1927-37 are typical both for the growth of numbers and for the diversity of origin
NUMBERS.
Year.
1928..
1931.
1934. 1937. 1838.
•
Men.
• • •
•
•
•
1941 (estimated)
Year.
Hong Kong (Chinese)
1928...... 75.... 1931.... 85.
1934......126..
1937.
1938. 1941.
121
3300
.... •
.154. .190.
•
•
281
331.
...
...
397. .352...
398....
.500.
Women.
•
40.
•
39.. ..41
•
89... 90. .150.....
STEADY GROWTH BY DOMICILE.
China
Proper.
•
105. .105..
110. .119.
120. ..175...
Canada,
Australia, etc.
22.
27...
40..
•
39..
16.
45.
...
Malaya &
Total.
321
.370
•
.438
...
0447 .488 650
Dutch East Ind.
Others: Mainly Hong Kong.
55
95468
71....
.98...
•
108.
•
108.
145. 160..
•
63
80
Note:
Women
Students:
and
The students represented as of Hong Kong domicile/er "others" may be taken with certainty as pupils of Hong Kong schools, i.e. in 1938, a total of 207. Of those shown as from Malaya something between one third and one quarter had attended Hong Kong schools, say 40: of those shown as domiciled in China proper and in Canada, etc. nearly half attended Hong Kong schools, i. e. in the same year perhaps 70. From Hong Kong schools in its total of 488 students, the University drew about 320.Asam becal sekeels. In the abnormal year of 1941 of 650 students, it is estimated that nearly 500 were from local schools.
The 'China Incident Years:
During the years 1940-41 numbers had reached 650 which was twenty five per cent more than the laboratories, libraries and class-rooms were intended to accommo- date and twice the number for which there was hostel room. In those years the total of applications was nearly a hundred greater than we could accept. // The pro- portion of women had grown in 12 years from about fifteen per cent to thirty per cent. The figures are interesting as showing the steady decay of the old object- ion against the education of women and particularly against their participation in "mixed" classes. This is due to the growth of enlightenment in China, influen- ced very greatly by Madam Chiang Kai Shek, her sisters and her colleagues, not to
As far as my any growth of enlightenment in Hong Kong under British rule. knowledge extends the system had the approval of almost all University teachers in China and Hong Kong: it is in fact welcomed as giving the greatest promise for future generations. Chinese women in "mixed" institutions are independent and require almost no shepherding.
The Problem of Domicile:
It is impossible to write with assurance of the proportion of students who properly are to be regarded as domiciled in Hong Kong. A very large part of the population of the Colony belongs to families that are divided between China and
The interchange Hong Kong or Malaya and the Dutch East Indies and Hong Kong.
of these divided families between British and Chinese residence and employment is so frequent as to be counted normal. The very considerable number of boys and girls from China educated in Hong Kong schools are members of such families which, legally, I believe, are recognized as having a double domicile.
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