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fessorships, in the event of the salaries offered being, in its judgment, insufficient to secure the services of men of the requisite ability and acquirements. The power which it is here proposed to confer upon the Senate will be especially useful as a means of preventing the undue multiplication of technical and professional schools, and of giving a special character to each college by attaching different schools of that class to the different colleges. We are of opinion that, considering the large expenditure involved in founding and carrying on professional and technical schools, it is not, as a rule, advisable to establish more than one school of the same kind. Our scheme provides for instruction in physical and natural science as part of the arts course in every University college. Our view is that, in addition to this, each of the several colleges should have in immediate connection with it some special school; but the precise constitution to be given to such schools is a point upon which we are not able at present to give a final opinion. We find it necessary, however, to recommend that the powers which the present governing bodies of the Otago University and the Canterbury College possess with regard to all the institutions under their charge, be conferred upon the Councils to be constituted under the new Act, and that those Councils have power to associate with themselves committees, composed of persons, not being members of the Councils, who may have special knowledge of the institutions in question. It would perhaps be unwise to include in the new Act a provision for the granting of degrees in science, as such degrees are not included among those enumerated in the University charter; but we think that the Senate should confer with the authorities of the various Australian Universities with a view to joint action in making application to the Crown for such modifications of their respective charters as will enable them to confer science degrees which will be recognized throughout the British dominions. We have ascertained the views of several of the Judges and members of the Bar as to the advisability of proposals for requiring that candidates for admission as barristers or solicitors should pass through a course of University training; but upon this point we must defer our decision until we proceed to the preparation of our final report. Seeing that there is already in the colony a body of professors specially trained for the tuition and examination of youth, and that their number will be nearly doubled if our proposals be accepted, we recommend that the examination of law students in general knowledge and the examination of candidates for admission to the Civil Service be transferred to the University. In order to encourage young persons to continue their studies in the colleges, and proceed to University degrees, it seems to us desirable that a certain number of appointments in the public departments should be reserved specially for students who have graduated with distinction in the University. We do not undertake to name the departments in which these prizes should be given; but it is manifest that from an engineering school, for example, students might pass into the Public Works Department, or into the Telegraph or Survey Department. It appears to us that by this means a special field, however small at first, might be opened up to intelligent native-born youth. We suggest that the Senate should negotiate with the Government as to the departments in which such appointments should be offered, and the conditions of tenure. By the terms of our Commission we are required to report upon the best means of bringing secondary and superior education within the reach of youth of both sexes. We are not yet prepared to deal exhaustively with this subject; but we think it necessary to recommend that it be notified to candidates for appointment as professors of the new colleges that ladies are admissible to degrees in the University, and will be permitted to attend classes in these colleges, as is already the case in Otago and Canterbury. We beg also to direct your Excellency's attention to the necessity of some public provision for the secondary education of girls in Nelson, and of a more adequate maintenance for the Girls' High School in Auckland. We may further state that the classes for girls at Wellington College are limited to two hours a day, and conducted by masters who even without this burden would be overworked.

Technical and professional schools.

Science degrees.

Barristers' and solicitors' examinations.

Examinations of law students and for Civil Service.

Public appointments to be sped iilly reserved for graduates.

Female education.