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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1954

The number of schools and total enrolment on 30th June, 1954, were as follows:

No. of

Enrolment

No. of

Schools

Teachers

Government

40

17,589

558

Grant-aided

20

14,247

648

Subsidized

327

47,705

1,670

Private

719

142,942

6,290

Special Afternoon Classes

12,179

1,106 234,662

9,166

The financial difficulties experienced by the Univer- sity of Hong Kong, which is an independent body incorporated under the University Ordinance, 1911, led to Sir Ivor Jennings, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ceylon, and Dr. D. W. Logan, Principal of the University of London, being invited to visit the University and advise the Chancellor and the Council on financial and other matters. They arrived in September, 1953, and their report, published in February, 1954, recommended an increase in Govern- ment's recurrent annual grant to the University from $1 million to $4 million, and, in addition, an annual capital grant from the Government of up to $3 million. Government increased its grant to these figures in respect of the year 1954-55.

The number of students at the University this year was 938. They are divided between the faculties of arts, science, medicine, engineering, architecture and education. Eighteen government scholarships tenable at the University were awarded on the results of the Hong Kong University Matriculation Examination. Six of the holders of these scholarships will study medicine, six science, four arts and two engineering.

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