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10. The proposal that they should, if these conditions persist, cease to be treated as University departments should be considered in conjunction with two other resolutions of the Court. The first, in resolution XX of the minutes, wel- comes the appointment by the Governor of a committee to make proposals for the improvement of the training of teachers in the Colony. This Commitee has already recommended a complete reorganization of the University teachers' training course and copies of its report will be sent to you shortly. Hereafter professional and technical studies in education will be subject for a post graduate University diploma. The proposed changes have already been approved by the Senate and Council of the University, and if they are put into operation undergraduates will be able to com- plete the prescribed four-year courses in chemistry, physics, mathematics and other subjects and will no longer have to give up the work of the final years in these subjects in order to devote themselves to the study of the theory and practice of education.
11. A second proposal that bears upon these contingent proposals affecting chemistry, physics and mathematics is in resolution XXIV (d) (1). It was felt that to end the grouping of the sciences in an Arts Faculty, to develop a separate Faculty of engineering and science and to institute a degree in science might stimulate the study of the sciences. This change in the grouping of studies also provides an adequate framework within which can be organized the more restricted engineering teaching proposed for the immediate future.
12. Certain of the resolutions of the Court will affect the financial position of the University-
(i) Resolution V, when implemented, will mean that for the safeguarding of its capital endowment the University hereafter must be content with
a less rate of interest than that which it obtained on mortgage loans in more favoured days.
(ii) Resolution VII dissents from the University (1937) Committee's recom-
mendation that house allowances should be reduced.
(iii) Resolution VIII proposes new expenditure on the building of staff residences, but this should produce an annual saving on house allow- ances of nearly $7,500 after all interest charges have been met.
(iv) Resolution XXI proposes a reduced rate of salaries for professors, readers and lecturers but joins thereto a proposal for improved Provident Fund provision for members of the University staff recruited in Great Britain. The comparison inevitably was made of the value of pensions of Government servants in positions of like responsibility with professors and lecturers of the University, and a strong case was made for the improvement of the conditions on which University men could retire. The like considerations governed the attitude of the Council when the question of a restoration of the 10% salary cut that still is in force was debated. The feeling of the Council, endorsed unanimously by the Court, was that the restoration of the cut should be made by means of a more liberal University contribution to the Provident Fund account of its European officers.
(v) In resolution XXIV (a) the Court resolved that the administrative costs of the University might be reduced by a modification of the present arrangement, whereby administration is in the hands of a full- time Vice-Chancellor and a Registrar paid on the scale of pay approved for a professor of the University.
(vi) Resolution XII (ii) advocates the establishment of an Institute of Pre- ventive Medicine to remedy the most conspicuous weakness of the