ARTS AND SCIENCE
‘Bridge Needed In Future (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Sept 24. The need to re-think the pattern of knowledge in the universities of the future was discussed today by Professor J. Lawlor, head of the department of English at Keele, Britain’s first post-war university institution. Professor Lawlor said the separate departments and faculties inherited from the 19th century were no longer good enough for the 21st century. Universities of the future must adopt a course of common studies for every student —whatever he was to specialise in. “We must attempt to bridge the gap between the arts and the sciences so that we do not become divided down the centre into two main groups which cannot communicate with each other.” Universities should give the lead in this, and the schools would follow, he said. Another trend in Britain, he said, was for universities to become increasingly residential. All students at Keele lived in, and the proportion doing so at other universities was high. Contact between students through this means was a great educative force.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30555, 25 September 1964, Page 21
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