Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1978

The Graduate School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong was established in 1966, when five Graduate Divisions were set up. With the completion of the University Library and the Science Centre on the Shatin campus in 1972 and with the progress of the overall physical development programme which brought the three Colleges— Chung Chi, New Asia and United— together in 1973, Graduate Divisions increased apace. At present, the Graduate School has 18 Divisions offering programmes leading to Master's degrees (M. Phil., M.A., M.B.A., M. Div. and M.S.W.). One additional Graduate Division will be set up in the next academic year, and a few more new graduate programmes are expected to be introduced during the next 2 or 3 years. The prudent attitude of the Univer sity has put off for several years the consideration of two proposed Ph.D. programmes— one in Chinese Studies and the other in Electronics; but the prospect of introducing them in the near future seems bright. A very interesting development in The Chinese University is that some of the Research Institutes and Centres had been set up even before the Graduate School. But, like the Graduate Divisions, the Research Centres and Units were mostly established after 1971. There are now four Institutes and nine Centres and Units in active operation. Despite the rapid growth of the Graduate School and the Research Institutes and Centres/Units, quality rather than quantity has always been the University's emphasis. After ten years of development, the total student enrolment for the degree pro grammes for 1977-78 is only 252 (including 44 enrolled for the Three-year MBA Programme, a pro­ fessional degree course introduced in 1977-78) and the number of students awarded degrees in 1977 was only 77 (including 20 from the Two-year MBA Pro­ gramme). On the research front, the Research Insti­ tutes and Centres/Units have produced and published hundreds of papers, monographs and books. Here I would like to draw your attention to the table in which the names of Graduate Divisions are placed vis-a-vis those of Research Institutes and Centres/Units. This table gives us an unmistakable impression that, despite the temporary slow-down in the growth of the Graduate School and the Research Institutes caused by the economic recession during 1974-76 and the subsequent pickup in 1977 and 1978 ， the two compartments have maintained a more or less balanced development. In fact, if we allow for some time needed for the relationships between the two to evolve, we can see that the four Research Institutes— of Chinese Studies, Science and Tech nology, Social Sciences, and Business Management Studies— correspond quite closely to the four graduate areas under which various Graduate Divisions are grouped— i.e., Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Professional Education. Indeed, if "Faculty Research Projects" under each Institute are broken down into sections by discipline, further correspondence between the sections/centres/units and the Graduate Divisions could be established as well. This course of development is by no means accidental. As a matter of fact, the importance of # A paper for ASAIHL Seminar held on 3rd-6th April, 1978 at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 21