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sympathy with the wider University of Hong Kong
serving the wider view of the infiltration of British
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ideas to Hong Kong, he felt it rather more important
that a British territory of five million people in
Malaya should not be possibly without university
because Hong Kong was drawing students from it.
Dr. Channon mentioned that the 1938 \Commission
recommended in their Report that the whole question of
esta lishing a university in Malaya shoid be reviewed
within ten years. He had no doubt that there would
be a university of some distinction in Malaya.
Dr. Venn asked whether he was cerreet-in
rinking that the number of applicants for admission
to Hong Kong University in pre-war days exceeded the
number of vacancies.
Mr. Sloss replies: In the latter years,
Confermand
Twar thes was so
yes, particularly in the ease of medicine".
Mrs. Foster asked Mr. Sloss what proportion
of overseas Chinese students came to Hong Kong
University.
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Mr. Sloss said the real reason why these
Chinese students came to Hong Kong was their lack of
Chinese. The homing instinct of the overseas Chinese
was enormous, and if they had enough Chinese to get
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any benefit whatever out of their universities they
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did to to the universities on the mainland b Chose
who had not enough Mandarin te be able to follow the
went
lectures drifted to Hong Kong. It was not altogether
a matter of what we could do forthem, But there was
the reverse phenomenon of a considerable number of
mainland Chinese eoming to Hong Kong specifically for
medical studies.
Dr. Channon remarked that another factor was
that students liked to go to Hong Kong because they
got a degree, while in Malaya they got only a local
diploma.
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