Report.
Resolutions of Senate and Faculties.
Resolutions of Council.
It was decided to place on record a proposal made by Professor Ride and supported by the Hon. Dr. Selywn-Clarke that the above resolution should not be held to preclude the re-opening of the matter should circumstances change at any future date.
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We have given much consideration to recommendations which have been put before us (both from inside and outside the University) that the clinical Professors and the Medical teach- ing staff of the University should be Government servants, i.e., members of the Government Medical Service whose duties would be mainly professional.
51. Although we make no detailed recom- mendation, We consider that economy would result to either Government or University by the amalgamation of the University School of Patho- logy and the Government Bacteriological In- stitute, and we see no insuperable objection to this fusion. A further amalgamation deserving of close study is between the Biology Department and the Government's Botanical Department,
(a) The Senate agrees that economy might well result from some re-distribution of the work at present being done by the Government Bacteriological Institute and the University's Department of Pathology. A memorandum has already been drafted on the University aspect of this problem, but it is felt that no further step can be taken until the views of the Government are known.
(b) The Senate endorses the suggested co- ordination of the work of the Government Botanical and Forestry Department with that of the Biology Department of the University, if such co-ordination can be accomplished without any loss of efficiency,
(a) Resolved that the Council is of opinion that more effective use of existing facilities could be made if the staffs of the University Depart- ment of Pathology and the Government Bacterio- logical Institute were organised to work in co- operation.
(b) that the Council is of opinion that it would be economical and advantageous if the Biology Department of the University and the Government Botanical and Forestry Department were organised to work in co-operation.
(c) that the Council is of opinion that if Government should decide at any time to estab- lish a Department of Zoology, it would be in the interests of all concerned if arrangements could be made with Government for the head of such department to be employed to teach Zoology at the University,
Report.
52. We turn now to the vexed question of consultant practice.
On the evidence be- fore us we are of the opinion that the continuance of consultant practice by the clinical Professors is in the best interest both of the public of the Colony and of the University. But we re-affirm the importance of strict adherence to the spirit as well as the letter of the rule governing con- sultant practice embodied in the University Ordinance.
Resolutions of Senate and Faculties.
The Senate agrees that the continuance of consulting practice by the Clinical Professors is in the best interests both of the public of the Colony and of the University, but considers that half of the professional consulting fees earned by Clinical Professors outside Government Hos- pitals should be paid to the University and that they be paid an additional monthly allowance by the University.
Resolutions of Council,
It was decided to defer the recommendations made under this head for closer consideration at a later stage.
53. The Arts. Faculty seems to us to have attached itself like some half-unwanted step- brother to those two scientific Faculties which, to the founders at least, gave such promise of a sturdy manhood.
Later on the Chamber of Commerce was induced to contribute towards the support of a department where Economics and something like Accountancy could be taught (this contribution has ceased, but the department goes on). And finally a Chinese School was founded to carry
on the tradition of China's antique culture. Meanwhile the Government Education Department seized the opportunity of the exist- ence of a University and was provided with a course of training for the most promising material from its secondary schools to become teachers in Government and Aided schools.
See Memorandum "A".
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