CO129-594-1 Rehabilitation of Hong Kong University. For extracted photographs see CN 3-45- Advisory Committee report 29-3-1946 - 3-7-1946 — Page 145

General:

It is most important that all those studies, but especially those in the Social Sciences, should be pursued with complete objectivity and that there should be no attempt at political control of the expression of opinion by the staff in their lectures and writings. If that is impossible, it would be better to have no Social Studies and, infecd, no University.

The staff that we would suggest as the minimum capable of carrying out this scheme in the Faculty, keeping in mind the obligation of the University teachers undertake such research in their fields for which facilities may be provided, is stated summarily below:

Professor Readers Lecturers Junior Lecturers Tutors

English

1

Chinese

1

Mathematics

1

1

History

1

1

~NIN

2

1

2

2

Social Studies

1

5

Philosophy

1

Geography

1

2(one a

Goology)

French

1

Education

1

3

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3

2

NNWE

4

2

2

سولة

2

lecturer in

2 (one lecturer in Psychology and It, senior and junior, in Phonetics a general school me thoûs).

7

3

19

Faculty of Science.

9

14

It is necessary, if the University is. to be satisfactory, that provision from the first must be made through good honours courses for the training of research workers in. Chemistry, Physics, Botany and Zoology. The range of work in the sciences will not be vury wide, but there are fields wherein

The life of research can be pursued at no vory great cost.

the Faculty will be expressed in its provision for graduato research students as much as in its concern for the training of professional engineers and medical men. It is, a reasonable hope that mon may bu trained to a point that would ensure their admission to rescarch laboratories in the United Kingdom, which, in the nature of things, can give facilities that are not as yet to be foreseen in Hong Kong. There is no immediate prospect of the development of large scale industry, except porhaps in ship- building, and therefore in general we emphasise the importance of the Departments of this Faculty for their intellectual Cisciplines. Staffs must be made adequate, therefore, not only to do routine teaching, but to undertake research and to train good research workers, oven if, as may well be, their formative work may have to be done in the United Kingdom.

The exception to all this lies in Marino Biology, for which its geographical position gives Hong Kong great opportunities.

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