135
*
in the table below had attended schools in Hong Kong for the sake of the more effective English teaching. Of the 451 European and Jewish students only a proportion came from schools in China. The Hong Kong Chinese numbered only 1,126 but to this number should be added 99 Indians and 35 Japanese and that part of the Europeans who were at school in Hong Kong, estimated at 350. The University in eleven years hal a total of about 1,600 domiciled students whose earlier cducation had been in Colonial schools, slightly more than 37% of the total of its students. Statistics are not available to indicate how many of the Cantonese shown in thc table had attended Hong Kong schools, but about two thirds about 500 - would be a fair estimate. Thus the University as the apex of the educational system has drawn from the Colony and Colonial schools about half of its Students. Except for that part of the initial endowment that came from Canton, the University received no grants from the territories whence its students were drawn. In the past the Government has accepted this
position in making its grants to the University.
8. As an alternative to facing the risks of technologi- and costs of a considerably improved cal institu- tions for economy.
Substitution
University, it has been suggested that the Government of Hong Kong might call a halt, and might concentrate its effort on maintaining a good medical school, on expanding and strengthening its organisation for the training of teachers for Hong Kong schools, on developing
its technical school to train efficient assistants to man the local engineering services. If it is assumed that the Rockefeller Trust would agree to its partial endowments of chairs for surgery, medicine and gynaecology being transferred for use in a medical school not of university status, and if the partial endowment towards the cost of enginooring teaching could be dealt with in a like nanner, there is little doubt that essential Colonial necds in respect of the public servicâs could be
met
Between 1928 and 1938: Figures for 1939 1940 are not
included as war conditions in China caused an increase of students from China that could hardly be maintained.
Men 3,736
Women
In 1928 the numbers were men 281
Total 4,320
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321 488
584 Women 40 In 1939
́៖ 398
î? 90 Growth in numbers was fairly irregular up to 1939.
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Of those totals the numbers from different places in China
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CHINESE:
Men
Women
Total
Hong Kin
849
277
1,126)
Canton
635
118
753
Shanghai
177
9
286)
Other parts of
China
239
10
249)
Total from China.
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1,288
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