GREAT SCIENCE COLLEGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8046, 7 February 1906, Page 2

GREAT SCIENCE COLLEGE.

TO BE ESTABLISHED IN LONDON, London, February 5. Hit' I'"ill report of the Departmental Committee of the Royal College of Si ienee reeonmu'iuls the establishment of ii group of associated colleges of science and technology where the highest specialised instruction shall be gixon mid the fullest equipment pro- * f ,:r 'l'i' "tod advanced training and research, becoming the ehief technical school of the Empire. The group will j m .] Ul |„ „ iSwiaj College of Science, a Royal School of Mines, a Central Technical College, and new departments to be established at South Kensington. The Commissioners of the 1851 Exhibition are willing to grant an un--1 occupied portion of their estate, and the Government offer bnildiugs at »o«th Kensington to be used as a College ot Science with an annual grant of twenty thousand pounds. The London County Council will probably give a ■similar annual contribution.

The co-operation of the University, the London Council, and the City and Guilds Institute has been practically secured.

Tlic Weriilier and Beit gift of -till,l)Ul) will be available for Ihe buildings and initial equipment. Ihe governing body will number: forty. It is recommended that onelourtli shall be Government nominees.