LONG CAMPAIGN ENDS
UNIVERSITY CONTROVERSY WOMEN STUDENTS ADMITTED TO CAMBRIDGE N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent LONDON, Dec. 8. Ending half a century of controversy, Regent House, of Cambridge University, unanimously decided that the university should in future admit women students to matriculation and degrees on the same terms as men. Oxford University admitted women in 1920, but Cambridge has several times previously refused to follow suit. Girton and Newnham Women’s Colleges at Cambridge, previously described as “ recognised institutions for the higher education of women,” will now become full colleges of the university. Women graduates will be eligible to serve not only on faculty boards, but on all bodies concerned with the Government of the university. They will have votes in the Regent House and the Senate.
The campaign for the recognition of the full equality of women students at Cambridge began 80 years ago. In the interim a number of concessions have been made, but the full principle of equality has not previously been formally recognised.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26640, 10 December 1947, Page 5
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164LONG CAMPAIGN ENDS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26640, 10 December 1947, Page 5
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