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 202

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It is in the finding of staff that difficulties will be most acute. English Universities are not easily filling vacancies: there is a shortage of good candidates. Difficulties are enormously increased by the uncertainty of the future of the University in Hong Kong. Men who would be willing to trust their future in a good British University hesitate to go so far from the academic centre for anything less.

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atto. are being made to fill the vacant Lectureships in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, History and English, either in London or in China. appointments will, in the first case be for three years, the minimun time for which it is thought that men could be recruited. Long term appointments are left for the consideration of the appropriate University body when it is reconstituted.

Admission Examination:

To ensure an adequate standard of entrance to the University, it husbeen arranged that the London University Matriculation Board should hold its General Schools Examinations in Hong Kong in June and July of this year. The Matriculation Board has given Most generoun help by allowing adjustments to fit the special conditions in Hong Kong and by giving the Hong Long Univarsity the benefit of its vast experience and of its admirable machinery of examination.

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