UNIVERSITIES OF THE EMPIRE

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 66, 18 March 1921, Page 7

UNIVERSITIES OF THE EMPIRE

CONGRESS OF 1921

(IMH OBR OWN COWIiSfONIBNT.)

LONDON, 13th January.

July sth, 6th, 7th, and Bth are the dates fixed for the second Congress of Universities of. the Empire to ba held in Oxford. As at the first congress, which met in London in 1912, there is expected to be a large attendance of "representatives of the Universities of_ the United 'Kingdom and of all the King's Dominions. For a month all delegates from Overseas, will be the. guests of the Home Universities, which 1 they wiU t yisit in turn, either before or. after the' full meeting of congress. Bepresentation is limited to fouif delegates from each university. The preparation of the agenda paper of the congress was entrusted by the Standing Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom to a sub-committee, consisting of the officors of the bureau, together with the Vice-Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge. Last summer letters were sent to all universities overseas asking'for suggestions,, and a. similar request was subsequently made to all universities of the United Kingdom. After consideration of the answers received from the Universities of tha Empire, the sub-committee proposed that the agenda of the Second Congress should have relation to the chief needs of university activity, and especially to fields only Recently brought into cultivation and likely for this, or for othcsr reasons, to be viewed from diverse standpoints. Their report has been adopted. The agenda of the First Oongrejs fell into two divisions : (1) Universities in their relation one to another; (2) universities in their constitutional aspect and in their relation to teachers, graduates, and students. The various topics discussed were, for the most part, connected with university administration. THE PROGBAMME. At the first session, on sth. July, Lord; CUrzon, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, will be the chairman, and the subject for discussion will be "The Universities and the Balance of Studies." This will be considered from the standpoints of the place of the" humanities in the education of men of science and men of affairs, the place of the physical and natural sciencee in general education, and the question of specialism in university curricula. .In the afternoon Mr, Balfour, who is Chancellor of the Universities of Cambridge and Edinburgh, will preside over debates on "The Universities and the Teaching of Civics, Politics, and Social Economics," and "The Universities and Secondary Education." .

On 6th July, the congress will disonss "The Universities and Adult Education," with Lord Haldane, Chancellor of the University of Bristol, in the chair. At the afternoon session, Lord Crewe, Chancellor of the University of Sheffield and chairman of the Governing Body of the Imperial College o£ Science and Technology, will preside, and the. topic for*discuasion is to be "The Universities and Technological Education." The subjects in the agenda for the third day deal with training for commerce -and administration, the training of school teachers, and university finance. Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews, will take the chair in the morning, and Lord Shaftesbury, Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast, will preside in the afternoon. This important question of "The Universities and Research" will be dealt with at the morning session on the fourth day under the presidency of Lord Robert Cecil, Chancellor of the University o.f Birmingham, and at the closing session' ori the fourth afternoon Lord Kenyon will be in the chair, and the delegates will discuss the interchange of teachers and students.