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the programme, being the minimum requirements necessary to ensure the competency of the University in comparision with other British Universities at present standards, was over £500,000 for capital expenditure and recurrent expenditure rising to £100,000 a year in 1953. It should be stressed that the development envisaged will place the University on a sound basis for its proper future growth.

During the year negotiations were also in progress for the foundation of a British Institute of Far Eastern Studies chiefly for language study and research into all Far Eastern branches of study, and it is hoped to enlist the interest and cooperation of the Univer- sities of Oxford, Cambridge and London in this project.

For the academic year 1950-1 the total enrolment is 715 students, compared with 638 in the previous year. Of these 361 are studying Medicine, 172 Arts, 119 Engineering and 53 Science. There are 206 women students, of whom 119 are in the Arts Faculty and 64 in the Faculty of Medicine.

The construction of the Duncan Sloss School of Engineering and Architecture, commenced in 1949, was completed in February and the building was officially opened by the Chancellor on 1st March at a short ceremony following Congregation.

The foundation stone of the new hall of residence for women students, for which Sir Robert Ho Tung donated $1,000,000, was laid on 16th August by the Officer Administering the Government.

Schools and Colleges

The Colony's education is under the general control of the Director of Education, but much of the work of education is in the hands of missionary and philanthropic bodies and private individuals. By the Education Ordinance, 1913, amended in 1947 and 1948, all schools unless specifically exempted are required to register with the Director of Education, to be open to his inspection, and to comply with regulations concerning staff, buildings, number of pupils and health.

Since 1920 there has been a Board of Education to advise the Director on the development and improvement of education in the Colony. The Board consisted during 1950 of five official and eleven unofficial members representative of the principal groups in the Colony interested in education.

For administrative purposes, schools in the Colony may be classified as follows:-

(1) Government schools, which are staffed and maintained by the Education Department; in this category may be placed the two teachers' training colleges and the Technical College;

(2) Grant schools, which are run mainly by missionary bodies with the assistance of a grant from Government under the provisions of the Grant Code;

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