54147/47.
MEMORANDUM.
IMMEDIATE
Colonial University Grants Advisory
Committee.
C.D. & W. Higher Education Allocation.
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Mr. Adams.
Reference your Memorandum of 26th September 1947 on allocation by the Colonial University Grants Advisory Committee of the £61⁄2 million for higher education.
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As regards the reduction of the proposed grant to Hong Kong from £400,000 to £200,000 or £250,000 we feel that it is very important from the political angle to bear in mind Hong Kong's special position as an advance guard of British culture in the Far East and vis-a-vis China. From this point of view in particular everything that can possibly be done to rehabilitate the University should be done and we should therefore like to see at least the larger figure of £250,000 and, if possible, even more, allotted to Hong Kong.
(W.I.J. Wallace.)
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C. U. G. 3./3./46.
COLONIAL UNIVERSITY GRANTS ADVISORY COMITTER.
GENERAL ALLOCATION.
The following memorandum has beer received from the Executive Committee of the Inter-Unive:sity Council for Higher Education in the Colonies.
"The Executive Committee of the Inter--University Council, at the invitation of the Colonia University Grants Advisory Committee, has discussed the probable claims on the £4 million allocated to higher education from the funds available under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act, and has attempted to make a relative assessment on academic grounds of these claims.
2. The Executive Committee considered various methods whereby the estimated claims could be adjusted to come within the total sum available, but came to the firm opinion that any such adjustment, irrespective of the underlying principles, would involve attenuation of the firncial support to an extent which would jeopardise the standards attainable in all the projects envisaged.
There seemed no alternative but to review the estimated claims listed in C. J.G. C./2./46, tu consider each on its merits and to dele to such items as appeared to be untimely or to carry & low priority on academic grounds. The following conclusions were reached:-
(a) Gen: ral.
A sum of the order of £365,000 vould have to be retained for "central" schemes such as expatriation allowances.
(b) West Africa.
The figure of 32,465,000 might be reduced to £1,750,000 hit only if it were ccie to clete help to the territorial colleges and to concentrate financial assistance from the higher education allocation on the scheme for the University College at Ibadan, providing no endowment or other assistance for the development of Achimota Collage.
(c) Eas: Africa.
The figure of £950,000 would have to be retained, and this might prove to be an under-estimate on two grounds, firstly, that it did not include full provision for developing the medical school on the lines now approved, una secondly, that in the Committee's opinion the sum allowed for the building and equipment of the laboratories and professional departments was extremely low.
(a) Mediterranean.
The application for assistance amounting to £125,000 has already been approved by the Inte:- University Council, but the Committee considered that
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until the situation is clearer and the future policy of the University of Malta, particularly with regard to its constitution, has been approved, there is insufficient case un academic grounds for further financial assistance.
(e) Middle East.
In view of the uncertainty of the situation in Palestine, the figure of £1,000,000 could be deleted.
(f) West Indies.
The figure of £2,035,000 should be retained.
(g) Far East.
(i) Malaya. The figure of £750,000 should be retained, although it should be recognized that even this amount could finance only a part of the proposed develop- ments in higher education for Malaya.
(ii) Hong Kong. The figure of £200,000 should be retained as the proportion justified on grounds of Colonial higher education needs, but the second £200,000 could be deleted.
(h) Other Areas.
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This figure could be cleted, although the Committee reuched this conclusion with great reluctance, since they recognized that there would be claims of considerable academic importance for assistance in higher education arising from other areas in the course of the next ten years.
3. The Executive Committce
(a) noted with concern that even with the reductions and deletions suggested, the total claims still exceeded the amount allocated;
(b) felt that on academic grounds it was most im- portant not to attempt to spread the limited funds too widely at the risk of imperilling the standards of higher education;)
(c) considered that there was strong case on the intrinsic merits of the claims for help in higher education developments to justify an appeal for the allocation of a greater amount than £4 million."
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Colonial University Grants
Advisory Committee,
8, Park Street,
London, V. 1.
WALTER ADAMS,
Secretary.
10th December, 1946.
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