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The new university has as yet no endowments or funds of any kind. The colleges are in receipt of certain small endowments and grants from outside sources, but apart from tuition fees, which are at a comparatively low level, government grants provide the main source of income.

The university has at present three faculties: arts, science, and commerce and social science. The total number of students in all three colleges in 1963-4 was 1,368. In October 1964 the total had risen to 1,696, and the undergraduate and graduate enrolment in each faculty was 828, 562 and 306 respectively. In the matricula- tion examination held in the summer of 1964 a total of 2,645 can- didates sat and 1,007 passed. The total number of first-year students in the current academic year is 507.

In September the Governor presided at a congregation for the installation of the Vice-Chancellor and conferred the honorary degrees of LLD on Sir Robert Black (in absentia), former Governor of Hong Kong, Sir John Fulton, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sussex, Dr Clark Kerr, President of the University of California, the Hon C. Y. Kwan, and the Hon R. C. Lee, members of the Executive Council.

The Technical College has a total enrolment of 11,066 students, comprising 1,121 full-time, 281 part-time day and 9,664 evening students. The college has seven departments: building, surveying, and structural engineering; commerce; electrical and telecommunica- tions engineering; mechanical and production engineering; textile industries; navigation; and mathematics and science. These provide full-time course leading to the college's own higher and ordinary diplomas and to the associate membership examinations of many British professional institutions, a number of which have granted exemption from certain parts of their examinations to students in the higher diploma courses. The academic standard required for entry to full-time classes is a Hong Kong School Certificate with passes in specified subjects. Applicants outnumber the places available by about seven to one. Instruction is in English for the majority of the courses.

Part-time day and evening courses leading to college certificates, and to the City and Guilds of London Institute and other qualifica- tions, provide instruction in a wide range of technical subjects including design and work study. A two-year part-time in-service