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Literature), Social sciences, History, Philosophy, Geography

and Mathematice with two specifically post-graduate Departments

of Education and Social Studes. The total s taff in the four

Faculties proposed (excluding provision for extra-mural teaching)

18 as follows:-

Professors

20

Junior and

Readers

Lecturers

Part-time

Lecturers

7

45

19

Tutors an

Demon- strutors

38 or 41

For comparison the pre-war staff consisted of:

16

2

23

17

28

III. Finance.

8. The Committee, on page 26 of their Report estimate the

capital cost of providing a University of the standard which they

propose to be about £1,000,000.

follows:

This figure is made up as

Repair of Buildings and replacement of

equipment

New buildings

Endowment of' basic chairs

£116,000

£600,000

£350,000

*1,066,000

If the endowment of chairs is ignored the non-recurrent

expenditure would be reduced to £/15.000.

But the recurrent

expenditure on the seven basic chairs would be increased by

£10,500.

9. The Committee on page 26 of their Report estimate the annusl

expenditure required as £142,000.

This figure is made up es

follows:-

Salaries

£104,480

Scholarships and maintenance grante

for schol ra

20,000

Departmental grants

17.500

£142,000

If to this is added the cost of salaries in lieu of endowment

namely £10,500 the figure becomes 2,500.

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