University Education in Ireland

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 7 May 1903, Page 27

University Education in Ireland

into 4 a te^ing^Krsit? 11^ 81^ Sh ° Uld be ™™«« in each college should be held the University iSimiSJtiops 'counting towards the degree.' For the pSpoSfS* this scheme it is proposed to add • a new Roman CathShc College ' to the three existing Queen's ColS|es i, rh ft the reconstructed Royal University should be a Federal University with constituent colleges * auuia DO nii h £\ , tho constituent Colleges should be Queen's 8. That the endowment and equipment of the new College in Dublin should be on a scale required by I University College of the first rank, which is intended to <lra o '^students firom all parts of Ireland lnt * nded to J lhat the Catholic University School of Medicine should be absorbed into the new College in Dublin tfcn n,", J«. n h n P resen * Government and constitution o« the Queens Colleges should be remodelled on the lines suggested in section VI.

„, n . Th^ t the Colleges should be accorded a large measu c of autonomy, so that each may be enabled to develop freely on its own lines while at the same time cor£ th^Umversit 1 ? COnunon standard of culture prescribed by 12. That a liberal increase should be made in the endowment and equipment of Queen's College, Belfast so as to remove the deficiencies which at present hamper' its work and hinder its expansion. 13. That, while we are aware of existing deficiencies in the equipment of the Queen's Colleges of Cork and i i *i y l Wo are unable t0 recommend that any addition should be made to the present endowments of 'these Collego?, until in altered circumstances they give evidence of increased utility.

14. That the Law Schools in the Queen's Colleges at Cork and Galway should be abolished, and that the School of Medicine in Queen's College, G-alway, should be limited to the first two years of the medical curriculum. 1.). That the Degree of the reconstituted University should be open to women on the same terms as to men 16. The attendance at lectures in one of the four constituent Colleges of the reconstituted University should be required from all candidates— without distinction of sex— who seek the advantages of University training, due exception beine; made in the case of matriculated students at present engaged in a course of extern study. 17. That Halls of Residence for men and for women students be provided in connection with the two Collejres in Dublin and Belfast.

18 That the duplication of extensive equipment for <he teaching of applied science should, as far as possible, be avoided. With this view, courses nt the Royal Colloge of Science for Ireland should be recognised as (qualifying, in whole or part, for certain degrees of the University.

19 That provision for hieher technical instruction should be made m Belfast, and that the co-operation of the authorities of the Queen's College and the Municipal Technical Institute for this purpose is desirable.