May 13, 1920] 



NATURE 



345 



University and Educational Intelligence. 



Cambridge. — The syndicate appointed to consider 

 the relation of women students to the University has 

 presented a double report. One-half of its members 

 are in favour of admitting women to full membership 

 of the University with a few limitations affecting 

 special posts. They specifically exclude in their pro- 

 posed statute the recognition by the University of 

 women students at the men's colfeges, but they throw 

 open University lectures, examinations, degrees, offices, 

 and emoluments to women on the same terms as to 

 men. The legislation thev propose will give degrees 

 to past students of Girton and Newnham. 



The report of the second half of the syndicate con- 

 tams a long discussion of the question. 'Their actual 

 proposal boils down, however, to a recommendation 

 that the Senate should express itself in favour of a 

 new university being formed from Girton and Newn- 

 ham Colleges, the intention being to preserve for their 

 students the facilities at present extended to them 

 by the Lniversity of Cambridge. The advantages 

 accruing to women students under this oroposal would 

 be the awarding of degrees and official consultations 

 between the men's and the women's universities on 

 examination schedules, there is a controversy ahead 

 ending in a contest to which the outside voter will 

 doubtless be summoned bv both parties. 



Sir Geoffrey Butler, Corpus Christi College, has 

 been appointed secretary of the Board of Research 

 Studies; correspondence in connection with students 

 desiring to come to Cambridge to work for the Ph.D. 

 degree should be addressed to him. 



Mr. H. F. Gadow has been appointed reader in the 

 morphology of vertebrates; Dr. H. Scott curator in 

 entomology; Mr. G. F. C. Gordon superintendent of 

 the engineering workshops ; and Mr. L. G. P. 

 Thring superintendent of ' the engineering drawing 

 office. 



^Mr. T. Harrison Hughes has made the generous 

 gtft of 5o,oooZ. to the Universitv of Liverpool as a 

 contribution to the appeal for funds. 



A PUBLIC lecture on "The Life-movements of 

 Plants " will be delivered at University College, 

 London, by Sir Jagadis C. Hose on MondaV, May 17, 

 at 5.30. 



A HOLiD.w course in geology will be held at the 

 School of Metalliferous Mining, Camborne, Corn- 

 wall, from July 12 to August 23. The course will 

 consist of lectures, laboratory work, and field work, 

 and occupy five days a week. The lectures will 

 deal with the geology of West Cornwall, with special 

 reference to the economic side. 



A LIMITED number of free places, tenable at the 

 Imperial College of Science and Technology, South 

 Kensington, are being offered by the London Countv 

 Council to candidates who can show that thev are 

 qualified to enter on the fourth, or post-graduate, vear 

 of the course of studv selected. Applications must be 

 made upon Form T2;25/; A., obtainable from the 

 Education Officer, L.C.C., Victoria Embankment, 

 W.C., and sent in by, at latest, June 5. 



The council of the London (Royal Free Hospital) 

 School of Medicine for Women will award, in June 

 next, the Dr. Edith Pechey Phipson post-graduate 

 scholarship of the annual value of looZ. and tenable 

 for three years. The scholarship is open to all 

 medical women, preferably coming from India or 

 going to work there, for assistance in post-graduate 

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work. Applications are receivable by the warden and 

 secretary of the school, 8 Hunter Street, Brunswick 

 Square, until May 31. 



During the period immediately following the Armis. 

 tice it was necessary to adopt temporary measures to 

 fill vacancies in Civil Departments otherwise than by 

 open competitive written examination. The scheme, 

 authorised by Order in Council and under regulations 

 of the Civil Service Commission, has been known as 

 the Reconstruction Scheme. Under that scheme, men 

 who have served in his Majesty's Forces have been 

 chosen to fill positions in the Civil Service by inter- 

 view before a selection board, following a qualifying 

 examination. The scheme, which has been applied to 

 the Home Civil Service (Class I.), the Indian Civil 

 Service, the Colonial Civil Service, junior or inter- 

 mediate appointments, and officerships of Customs 

 and Excise, is now coming to an end; and the Civil 

 Service Commissioners announce that the last day for 

 the receipt of applications under it (which must be on 

 the prescribed form) is June 30, 1920, and that no 

 application received after that date can be considered. 

 This announcement does not apply to appointments in 

 the Foreign Office and Diplomatic Service or in the 

 Consular Service, which it is intended to make on the 

 Reconstruction Scheme until the end of the year 192 1. 

 The various associations of teachers in Lancashire 

 and Cheshire engaged in different spheres and 

 branches of education, ranging from the Private 

 Schools Association to the Universities of Liverpool 

 and Manchester, and including all grades and phased 

 of education, have formed themselves into a federal 

 council comprised of two or more representatives from 

 each association or branch with the purpose of con- 

 sidering the further co-ordination of education in 

 Lancashire and Cheshire, and of bringing into closef 

 association teachers who are engaged in different 

 branches of educational work. The council comprises 

 thirty-two representatives, with Principal J. C. M. 

 Garnett as chairman, from fourteen different teachers' 

 associations, and the federal council thus constituted 

 met in Manchester on October 26, 19 18. At a later 

 meeting the council appointed special committees to 

 investigate the following matters : — (a) The inter- 

 relation of the various types of schools and the age of 

 transfer, together with a national scholarship system ; 



(b) the curricula of the several types of schools; 



(c) the training and supply of teachers ; and (d) the 

 means ancj methods whereby teachers may secure a 

 more effective voice in the administrative control of 

 education. The recommendations of these committees 

 are set forth in a statement of some seventy pages, 

 published at ts. by the Manchester University Press, 

 entitled "A National System of Education: Some 

 Recommendations for Establishing it in England 

 during the Decade Ending Ten Years Hence." The 

 statement includes an introduction, being a lecture 

 delivered by Principal Garnett in January last, 

 which is accompanied by an elaborate coloured 

 diagram setting forth the various grades of educa- 

 tion for different classes of children according to their 

 opportunities and capacities and their probable future 

 in life. The pamphlet describes nine types of educa- 

 tional institutions and sixteen different types of educa- 

 tion, but whether these could not with much advan- 

 tage be seriously reduced in number is a matter for 

 the grave consideration of educators. It is suggested 

 that there should be established upon the lines of this 

 federal council a provincial joint committee for each 

 of some eight or ten provinces into which England 

 and Wales should be' divided for the purposes of 

 education. 



