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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 choapur and better to provide scholarships for good students to follow this plan than to provide staff, buildings and equipment locally to meet a domand which will not be groat.

28. A considerable number of Civil Engineering graduates are working in China and in Hong Kong as architects or as members of constructional engineering firms ongaged in building. At no very great cost it would be possible to develop in Hong Kong a School of Architecture and Town Planning working in closo association with the Department of Civil Engineering. The addition to the University of a Department of Architecture and Town Planning would fit in woll with the general principles that underlie the Committee's main recommendation. Hitherto the Chinese universities have done very little to develop training in Architecture and yet China in the next few decades is going to need the work of very large numbers of trained men. Wo therofore favour the establishment on a modest scale of a school of Architecture and Town Planning which would make a useful contribution to the development of Chinese architectural design, bring to New China during its reconstruction the special experience and knowledge of town planning which has been devolopod in the Western world, and at the same timo, by its local research, benefit the architecture of the West.

29. It is suggested that the two Departments of Civil Engineering and of Architecture and Town Planning could be conveniently grouped together to form a small soparate Faculty. The Department of Architecture and Town Planning would, of course, have very close. relations with the Faculty of Arts as well.

30. The staff that would be required in this Faculty is:-

Civil Engincering

Professors

1

Lecturers

3

Demonstrators

3

Architecture and

Town Planning

1

2

1 (Drawing Office

2

5

4

EXTRA MURAL TACHING.

31. The smallness of the English and Chinese educated population limits the amount that can be done in the way of extra-mural teaching. Before the war little was attempted, but work done by the University staff in prisoner-of-war and internment camps not only had a temporary value in the conditions that existed, but loid the foundations for a promising devolopment of extra-mural University teaching among the European part of the population of the Colony. Experiment is now called for in the provision of such teaching in Chinese for people who have not sufficient English to profit by courses in English. There is a very considerable population of Chinese who have no English but are well road in the Chinese classics, history and philosophy. If the University can interest such people in Western experience, especially in economics,

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