Minutes of evidence taken by the Royal Commissioners appointed to consider the draft charter for the proposed Gresham University in London ... / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty.
- Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.
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- 1894
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Credit: Minutes of evidence taken by the Royal Commissioners appointed to consider the draft charter for the proposed Gresham University in London ... / presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![IV.—As to Professors. Every Professor of the University shall be appointed and paid by the University, special arrangements being made, where necessary, for the payment of Professors out of trust or corporate funds. Each Professor of the University to be ex-officio an examiner in the subject of his Chair, but not neces- sarily to take part in every examination iu that subject. V.—As to the Initial Organisation or the University. A. —The existing Teaching Institutions in London which it is desirable to bring into, or into connexion with the University are— Bedford College, Central Institution of the City and Guilds Insti- tute, Gresham College, King's College, Medical Schools, Royal College of Science, University College. There are other institutions, especially those giving instruction in Pine Arts and in Law, with which it may be possible for the University to establish relations. B. —A Statutory Commission to be appointed :— 1. To make arrangements for bringing the existing Teaching Institutions of the higher order into con- nexion with the University, by complete or partial incorporation, or in such other manner as may seem expedient. 2. To have power to deal with Trust or other funds, or to present a Bill to Parliament for that purpose. 3. To organise the first Court or Senate in the fol- lowing way: — (a.) To select the first 14 Members elected under Cap. II. d. from among the existing Members of the Senate of the University of London, and from Members of the Governing Bodies of those Col- leges which may be incorporated in such propor- tion as shall seem advisable to the Commission, having regard to the importance of the vested in- terests involved, and to the magnitude of the educational resources which may be placed by each at the disposal of the new University. These initial appointments to last for 10 years ; and at the end of 10 years, or in the event of vacancy through death or resignation, the appoint- ment to be made by the Crown as above provided. (b.) To nominate the Professors who are to form the first Senate. When this has been dom, the Court shall be constituted, first, by the appointments made as above ; secondly, by the election of representatives by the Senate, by Convocation, and by the other Public Bodies mentioned in Chap. II. c. 4. After the complete formation of the first Univer- sity Court, the Statutory Commission shall resign all control over the University into the hands of the Court. 5. The proposals of the Statutory Commission not to be operative until they have been made public for a fixed period. All persons who may believe that their vested interests are affected thereby to have the right to be heard before the Commission. The decision of the Commission, after such persons have been fully Appendix heard, to be final. 58• Papers Nos, 6 and 7. VI.—Powers of the University. 1. After the functions of the Statutory Commission shall have ceased, and so far as the Commission shall not have been able to exercise, or shall not in fact have exercised its powers in this behalf, to exercise the powers to be conferred upon the Statutory Commission under Chap. V. B. 1. 2. To organise instruction generally, establish and modify curricula, allocate and distribute means and materials, recognise or withhold recognition of courses and places of instruction, and exercise all powers need- ful for maintaining a proper standard of University teaching. 3. To institute and confer degrees, and grant certifi- cates, &c., after the payment of such fees, and upon such conditions and subject to such regulations, as may from time to time be determined upon, and to both candi- dates who have, and candidates who have not, attended University or other recognised courses of instruction. 4. To confer honorary degrees, and to confer degrees with exemption from any or all of the examinations and regulations in force for the time being. 5. To provide Scholarships, Prizes, &c, attached to examinations or degrees or not. 6. To appoint and to fix and pay the salaries of Pro- fessors and other Teachers, and of Examiners, and to fix and receive the fees payable by students or by can- didates for examination or for degrees. 7. To regulate the expenses, powers, and procedure of Convocation within the Charter. 8. To receive all grants, endowments, and gifts. To keep, manage, invest and deal with all funds for Uni- versity purposes. 9. [Power to hold, buy, and sell land.] 10. To hold, manage, sell, and deal with all Univer- sity property. 11. To suspend or dismiss any person paid by the University, and to exercise discipline in respect of candidates, undergraduates, and graduates. To annul membership, certificates, and diplomas upon proper grounds. To take proceedings against persons falsely pretend- ing to University Membership, distinction or degrees; in cases of personation ; in cases of counterfeiting cer- tificates, diplomas, &c, or other University writings; in cases of aiding and abetting University offences. 12. To make special provision for the advancement of the higher learning and research; arid to perform such other actions, and to exercise such authority as may be necessary for the furtherance of education and the promotion of Science and Learning. 13. To appoint or to recognise teachers giving in- struction of a more or less academic character at institutions and colleges, the objects or the standing of which render complete incorporation with the Univer- sity undesirable. 14. To institute lectures at various local centres of the type known as University Exiension'' lectures. 1-5. The control exercised by the University over teaching institutions, and the teaching directly con- ducted by the University itself to be confined to the Metropolitan area. PAPER No. 7. Letter from the Royal Geographical Society. 1, Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, W., Gentlemen, January 30, 1893. On behalf of the Council of the Royal Geo- graphical Society, I beg respectfully to submit for your consideration the claims of Geography to a Chair in a teaching University, should such an institution be established in London. In 188 U85 the Council undertook an inquiry into the position of geography in English and Continental education. The result was unfavourable to England ; and there has been a general concurrence of testimony, according with their own strong conviction, that the roost effectual step towards the removal of our in- feriority would be the establishment in our Univer- sities of Chairs or Readerships, similar to those held in Germany. Memorials on the subject were, as a sequel to this o 82290. inquiry, presented to the Vice-Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge, and, as a result, a Readership) in Geo- graphy was established at the former University, and a Lectureship at the latter. I send you the numbers of our Proceedings containing the Annual Reports of the gentlemen who fill these Chairs, from which it will be seen that the representations of the Council have been justified by the results. So much of human knowledge and human interests is bound up with the relations and interaction of the physical conditions of the earth, the study of which is practically embraced in geography, that there are few branches of education which do not present a geo- graphical aspect, and which do not therefore offer a field for instruction in geography in combination with some other subject. It is unnecessary to insist upon the close connexion of history and geography, or upon the importance of a R](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24749436_1357.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
