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inter-University ouncil for Higher Sđucation in the Colonies has been establish d to carry out. The impending booygunization of the Universities Bureau of the British
pire will doo Bosist in reïucin this 180lation and in f1litating interchange of stiff and ideas with the Empire universities.
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hen the adversity was fouried in 1941, there were few riveraitiou in Chine. The phat thirty years have seen the growth, nomo with American assistenze, of nuX TOUS hinese univernition, a few of which have soháoved atomlarde which valo them park es quals with pho had odmi. This evelopmont Vailed Kipermeant ot only the diversion of mary students who mi ht
otherdan have proveaded to Hong kong, but also that leng ON University was replɑly outdietamed in equipment and
Gul Ittee considerad slut fay fron prevoutin a neconstituted Liversity from achieving its al: this factor coul. in the future Creatly acount is in doing so.
mure la now servúfold an energetic aen Junio life in Jaina and Dia 21 · a Britzel, wive`nity can mak co, tact,
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maintenance of oo understanding" on a university level is
rul:fully possible. It 10, however, an absolute requiremo:í that the niversity of Hon long should in quality and etandarde in its own amonialized sphere as a representative 90 ritich neholarship, be able to meet it. sister universities in "hing at least as an equal.
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Who Mommitto decided tinto one to recommend that a niversity shoull continue wo exist in Hon Tong primarily as a centre for (ino-ritish contact in the aphere of learning, a...l for the maintenance of good understanding with the neighbouring country of hina. The Committee has the following six comments or recommendations to and on the Purther general napects of the policy which 2. ould govern the resuscitation of the University on those lines. Detailed Pal technical points are dealt with in ection 12:
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In the first place, the plans for the University's revidi must envisage it as a permanent institution. von if in She immediate emergency of shortages, temporary arrangements have to be adopted for building, for equipment, even for staffing, those must be regarded merely as first-ald ressured and must not be allow d to prejudico, or serve as an excuse for postponing, permanent plan. uite apart from the fact that the cheap and the temporary alwayo prove a false economy in university Gevelopment, a university in Hong Kong could not recruit staff ör in other ways attain the starxlardo necessary to represent British scholarship and could not become a centre of learning; unless it had the self- confidence provided by the intention and assurance of permanence. The chief purpose it is designed to serve, namely the mintenance of good understanlin, is házamaldy a permminent one, whatever changes may occur in the ephemeral politicul scene. It should be constructed and planned to survive any change that might take place in the status of Hong Kong; even is a radical change occurred, the University's functions would become more, not less, important as a living source of British influence and as an established centre of Sino-British contact. Two practical consequences follow from this principle of permanence to which the comittec wishes to draw attention. University should have a long-term bullding plan for the
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