A TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43083, 18 April 1907, Page 4

A TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

The scheme to provide London with a great technicological college on tike lines of the Charlotten/burg institution is taking shape at last. It is four years since Lord' Rosebery addressed Tils memorable letter to the London County Council on the subject. The cost of erection and equipment was then put : down at £200,000, but. the ideas of the promoters have expanded with the promise of liberal subscriptions. The laite Mir Alfred Beit bequeathed £250,000 to the fund, and Sir Ernest Oassel and Lord Strathcoaa have' promised generous donations. The whole question was referred to a Departmntal Committee of the Board of Education for a report, and the . committee reoorpmended the “establishment at South Kensington of an institution, or group of associated colleges of science and technology, where the highest specialised instruction should be given, and where the fullest . equipment for the most advanced training and research should be provided in various branches of science, especially in their application to industry, for which no l sufficient provision exists elsewhere.” The xiommittea suggested that the scheme should, in the first instance, include the work' of. the Royal College of Science, the Royal School of Mines, the Central Technical College, and departments to be established on an ' additional site at South Kensington, and Reginald McKenna, the new Minister of Education, has introd need a Bill providing for the establishment of the institution on these lines. Three sites are available for new buildings, one belonging to the Government and used bv the Solar Physics Observatory. and the others belonging to the Exhibition Commissioners. These will all he utilised, so that the great col-i lege will be able to use all its funds for buildings and eouipment