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Board of Education, or on such other special or Standing
Advisory Committees as may from time to time be appointe
to deal with local problems of Technical and Industrial
Education. We have noted with surprise that no mention
of the University occurs in Para. 79 of the Government
Report.
We are emphatically opposed to the suggestion, put
forward in G.R. Para. 81, that the Headmaster of the
projected Junior Technical School should become a member
of the University Court, or Senate, or Board of the
Faculty of Engineering. We are unable to see that his
presence on these bodies, or on any other University
body, could be of service to the University, but consider
that it would inevitably mar the University's prestige.
Besides, the honour suggested for this purely technical
man would give him a status above that enjoyed by any
other headmaster in the Colony.
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General Conclusions.
We are in cordial agreement with many sections of
the Government Report, especially with those paragraphs
in which the University's difficulties are fairly and
forcibly stated, and its methods defended against badly-
informed critics, who are too often rather unpractical
persons airily spinning academic theories at a safe
distance from the practical realities of scientific and
"higher technical" education.
G.R. Paragraphs 38 and 39 state with ample emphasis
that the University cannot conduct technical schools,
that the status of the Faculty of Engineering must not
and cannot be reduced, and that the needs of the Colony
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