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of the local needs for, or capacity to absorb the products of, &

+ university, the Committee vlso judged that the Colony itself did not require the restoration of the University. The Colony's needs of teachers, doctors and other professional specialists could be met by ef less expensive means - by a college of medicine, training colleges, and technicul institutions, combined with a scheme of scholarships to universities overseas for selected 2. ber of students.

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5. An analysis of student registrations in the period 1928-38 showed that about 40 per cent. of the Chinese students came from overseas, particularly from Melayu. The Comittee considered therefore whether it would be justifiable to restore the University

.o continue to serve the needs of those over eso Chinese. The зvidence before the Committee suggested that, though there wal posaunition et strong influence in the Chinose family organiza- tion in levour of the formative youre being spent in China(or t least in a Chinese environment, the majority of these students come to Hong Kong because of the absence or limitation of fucilities for higher education in their places of origin, because the University provided the opportunity or obtaining a degree instead of a locul Siploma (se for example in the cuse of the College of Medicine, singupore), "ber because their lack of Mandarin made it difficult for them to attend the universities in China. The Committee reuched the conclusion that if easily accessible alternative fucilities of university education became available the numbers of these oversess students would decline. It was understood that the recommendations of the McLean Commission, endorsed by the Asquith Commission, that there should be a University College, and ultimately a full University in Maleye would almost certainly be implemented. Comittee decided that it would be uneconomical and short-sighted to restore the University of Hong Kong in order to meet a probably temporary demand from Malaya, with the risk of prejudicing the de- velopment or the Malayan University in the interim periou and Confronting the University of Hong Kong later with the crisis of

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kown. Furthermor. the provision of a college of medicine and of wchnical institutée ol less than university status in Hong Kong Would, in the Committee's opinion, be adequate to meet the needs of these students, in the period before university iscilities developed in Melay.

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