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College Students. There were in 1905 seven matriculated students, 

 and this year there are twelve in the Intermediate Class and six in 

 the B.A. classes. There are no other students this year, though 

 the college offers classes for the Survey, First Mining, and Law 

 examination. A University College, to cost /^6o,ooo, is to be built. 

 No other school in the Orange River Colony attempts University 

 work. 



In the Transvaal the only institution seriously doing University 

 work is the Transvaal University College, till lately known as the 

 Technical Institute. 



Within the last ten years five schools have, between them, put 

 six candidates through the Intermediate Arts, and the Normal 

 College, Pretoria, has obtained the B.A. 



The Technical Institute began its life in INIarch, 1904, as a 

 faculty of Alining and Engineering, the Law Course being first started 

 in 1905, and the Departm.ent of Arts and Science at the beginning of 

 1906. At present there are 91 day students, of whom 57 are in the 

 Engineering and Mining Departments, 14 in the Arts and Science 

 Department, and 20 in the Law Department. The staff consists of 

 14 lecturers, two assistant lecturers, and two demonstrators. The 

 College grants Certificates and Diplomas in Engineering, Mining, 

 and allied subjects, also a general certificate in Arts and Science, 

 and an Associateship. Students are also being prepared for the 

 Cape University Examinations in Arts, Minmg, and Law. 



In Natal matters are complicated by the fact that the schools 

 occasionally or regularly prepare students for Intermediate Arts, 

 and two or three, the Durban High School and the Ladies' College, 

 Durban, have each on one occasion put a student through the B.A. 

 One school, Maritzburg College, has also five successes in the survey, 

 and two in the first Mining Examination. One or two other schools 

 occasionally attempt the Survey Examination. 



A Commission on Technical Education last year recommended 

 the establishment of separate classes, to form the nucleus of a Univer- 

 sity College, and to draw the senior pupils from the various High 

 Schools, where they are being coached in one's and two's for 

 University Examinations. 



The present condition of Natal 's finances makes it very improb- 

 able that any steps will be taken, for the present, other than 

 continuing the work now going on at secondary schools. 



Now let us try to form some estimate of the relative importance 

 of the several units which I have enumerated, as factors in South 

 African University Education. 



Taking first, as a basis, the Arts degree, I have plotted the 

 numbers of successful candidates during the last eleven years along 

 lines corresponding to the colleges from which they are derived. 



In this respect the South African College and Victoria College 

 are approximately equal, and all the other colleges and schools, 

 plus all private students, taken together about equal in importance 

 each of these two places. 



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