Bulletin Spring 1977

“Chinese Traditional International Communi­ cations". As for the M.S.W. programme, I am sure its importance will be gradually known to the general public because, as I mentioned before, its establishment is also based on society's demands, and I expect it will receive outside financial support soon. Q. Would you please tell us what new programmes will be introduced in the next few years? A. The answer to this question is bound up with the overall plans of the Graduate School. Although these plans have been repeatedly discussed, no decision has yet been made because of the many factors that have to be considered. I feel that new divisions and new programmes should only be initiated by stages, and our efforts should be concentrated on the building up of stronger existing divisions — again, "quality rather than quantity". Q. Finally, what is the relationship between the development of the Graduate School and undergraduate studies? A. Graduate School teachers who also teach under­ graduate courses serve as a very important link in the development of both graduate and under­ graduate studies. If senior teachers are not given an opportunity to teach more advanced courses in the Graduate School, their desire to join or to stay on with the University will inevitably be lessened, and the long-term development of undergraduate studies will in turn be hampered. On the other hand, most of the graduate divisions would hardly have been set up under the existing policy of the University and Poly­ technic Grants Committee if undergraduate teachers were not deployed to teach graduate courses. This kind of link will remain very important in the years to come. Graduate studies, in fact, is an extension of undergraduate studies, and the full development o f the Graduate School depends a lot on the sound­ ness o f the undergraduate programmes. Students, too, have a continuity role to play, as manifested by the fact that the majority of our post-graduate students are graduates of this University. Sui-LoongPao Building, where the Graduate School will he