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sufficiently to emphasize the value of a University as an instrument of civilization in a commercial community.
The Vice-Chancellor has on several occasions addressed
the members of the Court on this and on cognate matters.
17. The remaining resolutions of the Council and
the Court are self-explanatory.
18.
No specific reference is made in the Court
Minutes to certain important matters of the University
(1937) Committee's report, but generally the reason for the
omissions are clear. For instance paragraph 64 of the
report comments on the organization of the Department of
Education within the Faculty of Arts and recommends the
abolition of the Professorship of Education.
Both in the
University and outside there has long been dissatisfaction
with the work done by the University in the training of
teachers. For this reason, in my speech of Congregation
on January 7th 1938 I announced my intention to appoint
the committee to which reference is made in an earlier
paragraph of this despatch. As the University was adequately represented on this Committee and as the
Committee was to report directly to the Governor,
understand that the Council was content to abstain from
passing any resolution on this issue. The Committee, as has been already stated, did not accept the conclusion of
the University Committee (1937) Report but, on the contrary,
has) advocated a wide extension of the training of teachers
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contended, co-operation between the University and the
Government Education Department will increase the
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