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XVIII. Paragraph 61.
XIX. Paragraph 63.
XX. Paragraph 64.
XXI. Paragraph 69.
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Resolved (nem, con)
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(1) that the Court is of opinion that the degree courses in Science or Arts subjects based on conception of general education as well as courses leading to professions are an essential need in this University.
(2) that the developinent of good schools of English and Chinese in this University is an essential need.
(3) that a school of Economics and Politics based upon the teaching of History and the study of working Political Institutions of the West and East is an essential need, and that, if necessary, provision for such teaching should be made at the expense of the present courses in Commercial Law and Jurisprudence at any rate until such time as there is a demand for courses in Law leading to a Law Degree.
It was recorded that this decision should be subject to the provision that it would not be put into operation to the prejudice of students who were already taking the course.
Resolved by a majority vote that unless the financial con- dition of the University has improved or unless there is a development of advanced work in these depart- ments, the Professorships of Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics when they fall vacant, be suspended and that there be substituted for them Lectureships or Readerships as the circumstances in each case may dictate,
Resolved (nem. con)
(1) that the Court is aware that present provi- sion for the training of teachers by the University is unsatisfactory in that there is not sufficient time allowed in the present organization of the course for adequate training of either theory or practice of teaching.
(2) that the Court welcomes the appointment by His Excellency the Governor of a Committee to make proposals for the better recruitment of teach- ers and for the training of teachers for work in the Colony.
Resolved (nem. con) that the Court would favour an experiment towards recruiting professors and lectur- ers for appointments hereafter to be filled on the following scale :
Professors
Readers
Lecturers
£1,000-25-£1.250
700-25- 1,000
550-25- 850
XXII. Paragraph 74.
XXIII. Paragraph 77.
XXIV. Paragraph 79.
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Junior Lecturer in Eng-
lish (three year appointments)
£ 500-20-£ 540
provided that the Provident Fund provision be amended so that a man recruited at about 30 to a professorship might retire at the age of 55 with a sum of not less than £10,000 to his credit in the Provident Fund.
Resolved (nem, con)
(a) that the Court considers it desirable to re- store, as soon as financial circumstances permit, the equivalent of the Gollan scale of salaries to those members of the staff who are entitled to that scale, and that the Finance Committee be asked to consider the possibility of effecting this by a revision of the terms of the Provident Fund;
(b) that the attempt to apply differential scales of pay when recruitment is made by a Committee in London acting as advisers to the University would still further narrow the already restricted area of recruitment.
Resolved (nem, con) that contracts for all men appointed hereafter provide that the normal retiring age of lecturers and professors be 55 and that extension from year to year up to the age of 60 be permitted only if the University desires to retain the services of a lecturer or professor, on condition that the proviso to the proposal under Report paragraph 69 is accepted.
Resolved (nem. con)
(a) that the Court is of opinion that in normal times the cost of administration through a full-time Vice-Chancellor and a Registrar paid on the scale of a professor high.
The Court considered the following resolution of the Council :-
(b) that the present constitution of the Univer- sity is cumbrous (Para. 79 of Report) is a matter of common experience and that the following modi- fications of the constitution of the University would make for simpler working:
(i) that the present Council of the University be abolished and that there be substituted a smaller body, an Executive Committee of the Court to consist of not more than 11 members which should have statutory powers to carry out the functions at pre- sent under the Ordinance assigned to the Council.