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EDUCATION

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The School of Education, inaugurated in September 1965, offers a one-year full- time and a two-year part-time postgraduate course of professional training leading to a Diploma in Education. A total of 68 students obtained the Diploma in 1972.

The Lingnan Institute of Business Administration was inaugurated in September 1966. The institute provides facilities for graduate study and research in the broad area of business administration, and offers a two-year curriculum leading to the degree of Master of Business Administration.

The Department of Extra-mural Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong offered over 450 courses and had an enrolment of 13,422 during 1971-2. In addition to general courses, the department has so far provided certificate programmes in hotel management, hotel operation, social welfare, the promotion and techniques of tourism, tourist guiding, applied design, transistor technology, computer fundamentals and programming, Chinese history, Chinese literature, general banking administra- tion, basic systems analysis, librarianship, advanced translation, the teaching of modern mathematics in secondary schools, personnel management, industrial design, music, film and television studies, advanced electronics and practical accountancy. The majority of the courses are conducted in Cantonese or Mandarin. The depart- ment also offers correspondence courses in English and Chinese writing, English and Chinese language and literature, business administration, principles of economics, marketing management, design and Chinese painting etc.

University Research

Both universities conduct a wide range of research programmes each year. Set out below are some of the programmes with particular relevance to the Hong Kong community that were completed or in progress during 1972.

In the University of Hong Kong, the Centre of Asian Studies sponsored activities designed to preserve for study essential elements of Hong Kong and Kwangtung culture. These included production of a documentary film of the Hungry Ghost Festival, catalogued collections of photographs and slides of Kwangtung artists, Cantonese opera scripts, wood-block printed books, and materials on local medical practices. Specific subjects for research were Chinese medicine in Hong Kong and the Lingnan School of Painting. The centre also assisted the Bar Association in developing a research programme into the inter-related problems of crime and punish- ment in Hong Kong; while completing its own projects on the impact of modernisa- tion on the youth of Hong Kong, and a comparative study of hawkers in South-East Asian cities. During the year, studies were continued on subjects ranging from a biography of Hong Kong's first treasurer, Robert Montgomery Martin, to con- sideration of developments in China today.

In arts and social sciences and law, research studies were pursued in all aspects of the humanities. Work continued on urban and rural developmental problems, with special reference to Hong Kong conditions. The university is in an unusually fortunate position to pursue comparative East-West studies in psychology, in literature and in modern intellectual history, and these fields have been explored in the year under review. Research has been undertaken in industrial relations in Hong Kong and