HONG KONG UNIVERSITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
CONFIDENTIAL
13
126
No. HKUAC 13.
Summary of Reconnondations contained in the Report of a Committee
appointed by the chancellor in 1939 to consider the
Development of the Und vorsi tv
Transfer of Univer- sity.
Univer- sities Bureau,
Scholar- ships.
Student Life.
Medical.
Public Health.
The chief recommendations of the Committee are:-
68. That to provide for development the question of the transfer of the University to a larger alte outside the town should immediately be taken into consideration but that new buildings now projected or proposed in this Report should not be deferred until the transfer is made.
69. That a Universities Bureau, organized by the Chinese Ministry of Education, would assist the orderly development of University education in China and that Hong Kong University should seek association with such an organization.
70. (1) That an attempt should be made to raise a fund to provide post-graduate research studentships in Medicine and Public Heal th.
(11) That an attempt should be made to raise a fund of $28,000 yearly to maintain a comprehensive scheme of scholarships for graduates and under-graduate students from China.
(iii) That the authorities of one of the attached Hostels be asked to experiment with student controlled messing and perhaps with dormitory in place of single-room accommodation of students as a means towards cheapening the costs of University education.
71. That the Government be approached for the provision of more adequate athletic grounds.
72. (1) That as new general hospital accommodation is provided in the Colony the Queen Mary Hospital should be organized, by stages, completely as a teaching hospital.
(ii) That hostel provision should be made at the earliest date for residence of students at the queen Mary Hospital for casualty and emergency work.
(111) That provision should be made for fuller use of Government medical officers, and of private practitioners where possible, for specialist teaching in medicine and surgery and that additional hospital accommodation be sought for such teaching.
(1v) That a new lectureship in Biochemistry for teaching diagnostic work should be founded,
(v) That provision should be made for post-graduate work in all clinical and pre-clinical Departments in the Faculty of Medicine, and, to make this possible, that provision should be made for an additional assistant in each Department.
75. (1) That an Institute of Public Health, established by co-operation between the Government and the University,
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