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University improves or unless the work done in these departments of the University develops. The discussion in

the Council centred in the second condition and in effect

ignored the condition as to finance. These departments

at present and in the past have done almost no work except

such as is preliminary to medical and engineering studies.

At rare intervals there have been one or two students for

a three year course in these subjects and at even rarer

intervals has there been a student for a fourth year course.

Not one of these departments can show any record of

original work: in fact they have been and are little more

than school departments doing school work.

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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, welcomes the appointment by the

Governor of a committee to make proposals for the

improvement of the training of teachers in the Colony.

This Committee 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 complete 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.

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