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of scholars to be sent to Britain, and a four days' 'Introduction to Britain' course was held in June for the main group of students then about to depart for further studies and training in the United Kingdom. Radio Hong Kong afterwards broadcast shortened versions of some of the lectures. Two British Council post-graduate scholarships were awarded in Refrigeration Engineering and Librarianship, and assistance was given to the Hong Kong Girl Guides Association and to the Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association to enable these bodies to send officers to Britain for short training visits.

With the co-operation of the Education Department the Presidents of the three grant-aided Post-Secondary Colleges were sent to Britain to make a tour of British universities and to study the British system of university administration. The Council also contributed to the exchange of information and personal contacts among specialists by arranging for a number of eminent visitors from the United Kingdom to visit and lecture to educational and professional bodies in Hong Kong. Among these were two surgeons of international reputation, the Professor of Biochemistry of Cambridge University, and the Dean of the Institute of Education at London University.