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Honours, in this particular group. It is also included among the options 

 for the pass degree. 



In the Royal University of Ireland Economics (Political Economy) is 

 an alternative with Ethics in one of the three groups, one of wliich must 

 be passed by candidates for the ordinary pass B.A. In the examinations 

 for the Honour degree (B.A.) it, with Civil and Constitutional History 

 and General Jurisprudence, constitutes one of the six groups open to the 

 student. It holds a very similar position in the examination for the M. A. 

 degree. 



The foregoing account shows clearly how little opportunity is given 

 for the systematic study of Economics as a preliminary to degree examina- 

 tion, and especially in the case of Honours. It is certainly very unfortunate 

 that an able student anxious to graduate in Honours is almost precluded 

 from devoting a large amount of attention to the study of Economics. 



In face of this tacit discouragement, so far as examinations are con- 

 cerned, the provision for teaching made in many places by colleges and 

 universities is almost a matter for surprise. At both Cambridge and 

 Oxford it is satisfactory in all but one respect. It is varied and comprehen- 

 sive, but — and this is a matter of regret — it is not sufficiently systematic. 

 At each of these universities there is a professor engaged in active teaching, 

 while other lecture courses are provided by college lecturers. At the 

 universities and colleges in the rest of England the provision for teaching 

 is of necessity less complete. At those best equipped, instruction in 

 Economics depends on the energy and vigour of a single teacher, supple- 

 mented, perhaps, by an occasional course of lectures by some other 

 economist ; while at the rest, if taught at all, it is attached to the 

 duties of a teacher principally engaged in, and probably principally in- 

 terested ill, teaching some other subject, fur, as a general rule, the teaching 

 of Economics in conjunction with some other subject has meant little more 

 than that the teacher of some other subject has had to give a course of 

 lectures on General Economics. At two of the three colleges of the 

 Victoria University Economics has separate teachers — at Liverpool one 

 holding the rank of professor, at Manchester one holding that of a 

 lecturer. At Leeds, on the other hand, there is no teacher of Economics. 

 At the other university colleges in England the two London colleges 

 possess each a professor, though the professor at King's College delivers 

 Economic lectures only during the six winter months. At the University 

 College, Nottingham, Economic lectures are delivered by a professor at 

 the same time engaged in teaching history and literature. The other 

 colleges (Birmingham, Bristol, Sheffield, and Newcastle) at present make 

 no provision for teaching a subject which they tind so discounted as a 

 subject for examination. 



In "Wales two of the University Colleges (Aberystwith and Cardiflf) 

 have made some sort of provision for Economic teaching by the appoint- 

 ment of lecturers in History and Political Economy ; while at Bangor 

 Economics is tacked on to the duties of the Professor of Moral 

 Philosophy. 



In Scotland there is a fully instituted chair of Political Economy at 

 the University of Edinburgh, and measures are in progress for the endow- 

 ment of a Professorship at Glasgow, where the Economic work has recently 

 been performed by a lecturer acting as assistant to the Professor of Moral 



