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foreman, which is not a proper University aim. In the enthusiasm of the University's beginning, degree courses in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering were provided, but it is clear that adequate facilities did not, nor do they now, exist for the full training of Mechanical and Electrical Engineers. On the other hand Civil Engineering work of a high order and of great variety has been necessary in the Colony, as a consequence of the rapid development of a modern commercial and industrial centre in a difficult physical environment. Before the war specialised teaching in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering had been suspended and we are of opinion that it should be abandoned and that the University should concentrate upon the strengthening of its Department of Civil Engineering. In the opinion of the Committee such students as wish to qualify in Mechanical anû Electrical Engineering should do so by way of a science degree in the appropriate subjects, with the addition of courses in the principles of Engineering and in Engineering Drawing. On graduating they should have no difficulty in obtaining entrance to the second year of an honours course in a British University. It would be far cheaper and better to provide scholarships for good students to follow this plan than to provide staff, buildings and equipment locally to meet a demand which will not be great.
Architecture.
A considerable number of Civil Engineering graduates are working in China and in Hong Kong as architects or as members of constructional engineering firms engaged in building. At no very great cost it would be possible to develop in Hong Kong a School of Architecture working in close association with the Department of Civil Engineering. The proposal is peculiarly relevant to our project as hitherto the Chinese Universities have lone very little to develop training in Architecture and yet China in the next decade is going to need the work of very large numbers of trained men. We therefore favour the establishment on a modest scale of a school of Architecture which might make a useful contribution to China at this stage.
The staff proposed is:
Civil Engineer
Architecture
Professors
Lecturers
Demonstrators
11
1
37
3
1
2
1 (Drawing Office).
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5
4
The total staff of the Faculties have recommended would then be:
with the developments that wo
Professors.
Readers.
Lecturers.
Junior and part-
time lecturers. Tutors and Demonstrators.
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19 or 20
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43
18
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38 or more.
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