CO129-593-6 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee papers 1-1-1939 - 31-12-1946 — Page 47

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'Intil the Committea has made its recommendations on University

development and those recommendations have been accepted by the

Secretary of Stato it is imposaible to promise work of sound

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Medicine where the local deèire for an institution able to awa

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a degrea a diploma accepted by the General Medical Council ag

qualification for registration in the United Kingdom might be

sufficient guarantee that the institution would be of comparable

status with a Medical School in the United Kingdom.

ACTION TAKEN

TOWARDS AN EARLY OPENING. THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,

The

All Executive

in London the affairs of the

Committee set up by the Secretary of State to deal with University

of Hong Kong li

London has made the following decisions:

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a) to place orders at once for the supply, at the carliest

possible date, of essential basic equipment for elementary

laboratorics for Chemistry, Physics, Botany, Zoology.

by to arrange for a Hong Kong centre at which candidatos may sit

for the General Schools Examination of the University of London

in June and early July 1946. The Overseas Department of the

Matriculation Board of the University of London is already making

arrangements for this.

c) to arrange for the return to Hong Kong at an early date, of

the Registrar and of other surviving Members of the University

Senior teaching staff.

a) to recruit in Englund or in Hong Kong, preferably on short

torm contracts, Lecturers in Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany and

Zoology, History und Geography and to recall to duty in the

Department in which an carly boginning of teaching is possible,

such Lecturers and Junior teachers as are available in or about

Hong Kong. The Executive Committee recognises that

on this basia is not likely to be safisfactory but hopes that