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technical college, should function as before and be renamed accordingly.

The Junior Technical School should aim at the provision of apprentices for engineering works and the building trades.

(11) The Evening Institute should be revived with commercial and technical classes as required by popular demand.

In Malaya

The restoration of

(1) Training facilities at the Technical School,

Kuala Lumpur.

(11) The Agricultural College, Cerdang.

(iii) The Forestry School, Kuala Lumpur.

(iv) The Grade Schools, Singapore, Penang, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Bagan Serai, Malacca and Johore Bahru.

(v) livening classes in vocational subjects.

17. Our attention was drain to the report of the Commission on Higher Eduestion in Malaya, 1939, and we were advised that the Secretary of State head, in 1943, proposed that a policy of development along the linos favoured by that Commission should be

We wish to be assoolated adopted as soon as conditiowa permitted. with that proposal and especially with the suggestion that an early decieion in principle should be Gsken on the central recommendation of the report, nemely, the establishment of a University College in Malaga, in only to avoid any vesting of interests and any interim action which would prejudice further development along the lines of the report. In this connection, we suggest that the new circunstances will offer the possibility of considering the gpbell Lrbury.nt as part of a long-term educationgl policy, of a Univerulby i. Mulaya, possibly at or near Kuala LumpuXE a location which re consider would have distinct advantages from the educatiobci point of vien

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Finally we recommend that an export be appointed to examine and report on the ecautional bulldings and equipment available as soon as practierule and that his report should be available for, and that he should be a member of, the Commission e Enquiry proposed ja paragraph 10 above.

SUMMARY OF RECOIRIMANDATIONS

We recommend that:

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Hong Kong University be revived as soon as practloable to serve the inmediate needs of Hong Kong, briority being given to the Medical and Engineering feculties, the Aris faculty being reconstituted primarily for shidonte for the teaching profession (para.11).

A number of scholarships to Hong Kong University be made available to Chinese students in China. (para. 12),

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