EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 5

EDUCATION CONFERENCE.

IMPERIAL BUREAU. TO FACILITATE INTERCHANGE. UNIVERSITY WORK. [rEZSS ASSOCIATION ] LONDON, 31st May. I At tho Federal Education Conferenco yesterday a discucEicn took place on "Universities and the Emp'irs." Lord Curzon, Chancellor of Oxford University, sent a letter apologising for his absetica. He said thcro could bo no graatcr mistake than to treat tho universities of ths colonies and ether component parts of the Empire with r.loofnes3. The supreme merit of the coherence was that it presupposed equality of interest and identity of purpo:?. VALUE OF POST-GRADUATE RESEARCH. Mr. A. J. Balfojr, Leader of tti2 Opposition, delivered an important speech dwelling on tho preposterous importance nlt?<-hcd by universities to examination. Ho regarded tho poet-graduate coarss as tho highest and most valuable work of tho universities. 110 hopad a mutual arrangement botween ths universities of the Empire would not only stimulate post-grnduatc research, but encourage its prosacution by membsrs travelling throughout the Empire, thus bringing about dose community in matters of tho highest intellect. UNIVERSITIES COMMITTEE. Tho conference adopted a resolution— " That it is desirable that a committee reprcssnting ths univemlies bo formed to investigate the possibility cf oxchango of information among the universities' of th.3 Empire." Sri Gilbert Parker hinted that in the event of a Bureau of Information boing established ho would bo ablo to obtain a certain amount of monttary supj.ort. 'Sir Philip Jones (Now South Wales) sard a Bureau of Information would bring about a mueh-nesded interchange of ct'.idonts. fair Gilbert P^rkor, Conservative M.P. for Gravosond, who cntorad Parliament in j9OO, 13 an author who is beGt known for his French-Canadian tales. Ho vas .-Jro a journalist, and began that career ks assictant-cditor of tho Sydney Mor.ii:ig Herald. Sit Philip Sydney Jonos, M.D., F.R.C 6., Vice-chancellor of tin University o? Sydney since 1904, was for smio fin:r examiner in medicine nt that uni-VMi-ity. Ho ha 3 had a distinguished nicdieal career, and has paid jpcciil attention to modern methods of dealing with consumption. Ho was knighted in lOt'o