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Architecture.
The University already has decided that it ought to offer a course leading to a degree in Architecture. for a small school at Dalat in French Indo China there is no Except provision for serious teaching in the subject between India and Japan. Local architects are nearly all men who have trained as Civil Engineers and after working for a time in the
offices of European architects, themselves frequently men who have had only a Civil Engineering training, are included in a local Register authorized by a Buildings Ordinance. The results are plainly to be seen in most of the new buildings in the Colony and in South China. The University's Civil Engineering laboratories were totally destroyed and it is proposed that they should be rebuilt not as scattered units but in single buildings joining up existing Mechanical Engineering laboratories and an engineering workshop. It is proposed that in this new building adequate space should be provided for studios, library, class- rooms and offices for Architecture. It is difficult to assess what part of the cost of the new building ought to be attributed to architecture, but it is not unreasonable to suggest that it might be one quarter. The remainder, the cost of Civil Engineering accommodation and equipment will be met from the
Government of Hong Kong's grant for rehabilitation.
3.
University Hall.
The University Hall was destroyed by the Japanese after they had used it first as a barracks and afterwards to
stable mules. The Hall was too small for examinations and for University assemblies long before the war. restoration will be met from the Government's grant but to
The cost of enlarge it to be adequate for the total of 850 students for which we must now prepare as against a normal 600 before the war, University seeks aid from the Grants Committee.
the probably cost £60,000 towards which a grant of £20,000 is now
The Hall will asked for.
4.
Women were first admitted to the University in 1928 and since 1930 the proportion has steadily increased until we now can assume that hereafter the immediate pre-war proportion of one third will continue. The Chinese Missionary Society and a French Mission each maintained a hostel for University women but neither Society can continue to do so. therefore compelled almost at once to have plans prepared for a
The University is Hall to accommodate about 100 women with quarters for a Warden and at least two tutors. It is estimated that to give each woman a small study-bedroom and to provide adequate dining room, commonroom, library and quarters for staff will cost about one million Hong Kong dollars (about £62,000) at present prices of building which may decline within the next ten years or equally probably will not. At present women students even from the leased territories across the Harbour are in effect debarred from University training by the absence of living accommodation and many from overseas Chinese communities who do attend are living with relatives or friends in conditions not conducive to serious study. Chinese members of the University Court at its first meeting after the war stressed this as a conspicuous need of the University.
5.
An Institute of Teaching.
The training of teachers has been carried on with · difficulty by the using of any accommodation that happened to be available at any time in the University. Hereafter a greater
responsibility
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