THE UNIVERSITY QUESTION.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2702, 14 October 1871, Page 2

THE UNIVERSITY QUESTION.

From the published minutes of the meetings of the Council of the New Zealand University, held at Wellington, ■we' learn that during last month a conference took place between the Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors on the two Universities, when the following points of agreement were arrived at. On the amalgamation of the Otago and New Zealand Universities ; 1. The University of Otago to be henceforth termed “ University College,” and to be affiliated. 2. i\o longer to have the power of conferring degrees. 3, All endowments now or hereafter available for the purposes of any institution affiliated or to be affiliated, to remain the sole property of such institution, and subject to its control. 4. The re-construction of the New Zealand University no longer insisted on. 5. The New Zealand University to .be situated at Dunedin. (5. Degrees to be conferred at Dunedin. 7. Examinations for scholarships at the most convenient places in the Colony. 8. The New Zealand University Council to meet where most convenient. 9. The property of the New Zealand University to become the property of the Council. 10. The statutes and regulations of the Council to by in force until vetoed by the Governor. 11, The Government to insist upon sufficient reserves in every Province being made under the University Endowment Act. 12. The present Act to be altered so as to admit of scholarships being held in affiliated institutions. 13. Any discrepency between 7th and Sth clauses of the University Endowment Act, and the Sth clause of the New Zealand University Act to be adjusted. 14. All appropriations for scholarships, lectureships, prizes, &c., be applicable to affiliated institutions. 15. That affiliated institutions provide for the purposes of teaching and lecturing, lecture rooms, with suitable apparatus and appliances. By way of addenda we are informed that, in the discussion of the last article of the agreement, there was one dissentient voice, the objection made being that no clause was introduced constituting the University an examining body only, and not a teaching body. Three of the four members of the contereuce agreed that a conscience clause should be one of the conditions of affiliation. It was also proposed that the amended Act should be introduced into Parliament without repealing the Act of 1870, so as to obviate the necessity of doing again what has already been done. The draft of the amended Bill was forwarded to the joint University committee of both Houses of Parliament, agreed to by them, and was published shortly afterwards. Air Maeandrew, at the meeting at which the above resolutions were reported, gave notice of his intention to move that, pending the result of legislation with reference to the Universities, which is likely to take place during

the present session, it was inexpedient that the Council of the New Zealand University should take any further action in fulfilment of its functions.