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 98

buildings by the end of ten years after the resumption of University work and for an increase of residences for stunte and members of the staff, may be reckoned at between £1,130,000 and £730,000.

Staff.

The salary scales of the Irvine Committee have been

A further adopted as a basis for an estimate under this head. proposal of that Committee canmends itself very strongly to rs, that by which His Majesty's Government is asked, in place of making a grant to pay the salaries of all professors, to endow certain "basic professorships", to give the University a measure of protection against the not infrequent sudden fluctuations in Colonial resources. We suggest that the basic professorships for Hong Kong would be in English, Chinese, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Social Science or Social Economics and Physiology. An initial grant of £350,000 would be required to achieve this end.

The total of the non-recurring grant would then become a sum between £1,080,000 and £1,480,000 but of this sum between £600,000 and £1 million would be paid, in instalments between the fourth and tenth year after the University is restarted. Recurring cost of staff on the Irvine Report scale and assuming that endowments of professorships mentioned in the previous paragraph are not forthcoming, are shown in the following table:

21 Professors £1500 a year.

4 Readers

45 Lecturers

18 Junior or

£1100 £ 880

Part-time

Lecturers

£ 600

(1

35 Tutors and

Demonstrators £200

Registrar and

1

11

Librarian

£1500

Vice-

Chancellor £2500

it

•

Provident Fund for above

at 10% a year..

Clerical staff and servants with superannuation charges at 5%

·

.£31,500 .£ 4,400 ..£39,600

.£10,000

.£ 7,000

£3,0 .. 3,000

£25,000 £98,800

..£ 9,880 £108,680

£3,000 £111,680

NOTE I.

If we accepted a further recommendation of the Irvine Committee that the professors of the Clinical subjects in medicine should be paid at the higher rate of £2000 a year the cost would be increased by £1500 and a provident fund contribution of £150 a year, i.¤., by £1650 making the total under this head £113,330.

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