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Hong Kong University Advisory Committee

Confidential

No. HKUAC 2.

Report by the 1945 Advisory Committee on Hong Kong University and the Higher Educational Institutions in Malaya and Hong Kong

Committe

0.B.E.,

G. E. J. Gent, Esq., 0.1.0.7 0.B. E., D, S.0.,M.C. (Chairman) Professor H. J. Channon.

Dr. V. Purcell.

Sir A. Blackburn. KCMG, CBE

gir W. Peel, K. C. M. G., K. B. E., C. M. G.

S. W.

Jones, Esq.

A. Morse, Rag,,. C.B.E.

J. J. Paskin, Esq., C. M. G., M. C.

T. R. Rowell Esq.

N. L. Smith, Esq. cm.G

W. J. Thorogood, Beq., M.C.

(Secretary).

1. We were convened as an informal Committes to examine and advise upon the arrangements to be made for the resumption of the activities of Hong Kong University and other institutions offering higher educational facilities here and in Malaya on the reoccupation of those 'erritories.

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2. We were informed that it was desirable that regard should be had both to the important part which the Hong Kong University might play in the furtherance of Anglo-Chinese relations and to the longer range requirements of Hong Kong and Malaya in the field of higher education, and that we were not, therefore, restricted to the consideration or the problems which will arise immediately on the reoccupation of Hong Kong and Malaya, but were free to submi such recommendations as seemed to us to be appropriate.

3. For the purposes of our deliberations and recommendations we interpreted the term 'higher education' broadly to include no* only post-secondary but also technical and vocational education.

4. ..e examined the proad functions that Hong Kong University was designed to fulfil and the extent to which those functions had been fulfilled in the past, up to the time of the Japanese occupation.

5, We conceived Hong Kong University to be an institution designed to provide

(a) University education of British inspiration for students

from China.

(b)

(c)

"echnical teaching in medicine, education and engineering,

higher education of a general character for students from Hong Kong- Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies and East Asia generally.

66 We could not escape the conclusion that the first of

/these