General

SECT. 19. Affiliation of Local Colleges.

Report 28 Mar. 1879. Grace 15 May 1879.

THE SYNDICATE appointed Nov. 14, 1878, "to consider the
question of the affiliation of Local Colleges to the
University, as suggested in various Memorials which
have been communicated to the Senate, whether or not
it is expedient to procure the powers required to enable
the University to affiliate Local Colleges, and the con-
ditions upon which such affiliation, if deemed expedient,
should be made," report as follows:

They have taken a large amount of evidence from the Memorialists and others in different parts of the kingdom who are interested in this question, and have had interviews with deputations from Nottingham and Sheffield. They with Oxford. have also held conferences with a Committee of the Hebdomadal Council of the University of Oxford appointed to consider the same question, with whom they are glad to find themselves in general agreement.

agreement

Application

to the Uni

I.

The Syndicate recommend that application be made to versity Com the University of Cambridge Commissioners for the powers required to enable the University to affiliate local Colleges.

missioners.

Conditions.

In the British Dominions; students of the age of 17 at least;

incorporated

or permanently established;

II.

The Syndicate further recommend that the following conditions of affiliation be established by Grace of the Senate.

1. Any College or Institution within the United Kingdom or in any part of the British Dominions, being a place of education in which the majority of the students are of the age of seventeen at least, may be admitted to the privileges of an affiliated College on the following conditions, namely:

(a) That its members be incorporated by Royal Charter, or that provision have been otherwise made for its establishment on a permanent and efficient footing and for its government.

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tion on the

(b) That the University shall be represented on its representaGoverning Body, and shall undertake the conduct of its Governing Examinations or of such part of them as the University o shall from time to time determine.

Body and in
Examina-

Grace;

(c) That it shall have been admitted to the privileges admitted by of an affiliated College by a Grace of the Senate.

terminable on

either side.

(d) That the connexion between the University and connexion an affiliated College shall be terminable by a Grace of the Senate, or by a resolution of the Governing Body of the College.

Certificates of

a three years'

2. Any person who has completed a course of three years at an affiliated College, in accordance with regulations course. to be prescribed from time to time by the University, and who has passed satisfactorily the Examinations connected with that course, shall be entitled to receive a Certificate from the University indicating that such person has completed at an affiliated College a systematic course of study and examinations approved by the University.

3. Any person who has completed a course of three years at an affiliated College, in accordance with regulations to be prescribed from time to time by the University, and who has obtained Honours in the final Examination connected with that course, and who has passed an Examination in some additional subject or subjects to be prescribed from time to time by the University if it shall think fit, shall be entitled to be excused all the parts of the Previous Examination; and shall further be entitled, for the purposes of any provision respecting the standing of members of the University, to reckon the first term kept by residence as the fourth term of his residence, and to proceed in due course to the B.A. degree, provided he obtains a degree by one of the Tripos Examinations.

III.

The Syndicate further recommend that the Regulations to be prescribed from time to time by Grace of the Senate shall at present be as follows:

one year's reCambridge

sidence in

excused.

Annual Examinations, of

1. There shall be held three examinations yearly, here

three kinds; inafter called respectively

(1) The College Exami

jects;

The Annual College Examination,

The First Examination, and

The Second Examination.

2. The Annual College Examination shall be held in nation; sub- such of the subjects taught with the sanction of the University, in each affiliated College, as the University shall from time to time determine, and shall be open to those students only who have satisfactorily attended the teaching in these subjects. Certificates shall be given to the successful candidates.

(2) the First Examination,

subjects,

distinction;

may be taken

in two years;

(3) The Second Examination,

i. Languages.

3. To pass the First Examination every candidate shall be required to satisfy the examiners in

(1) Arithmetic;

(2) Euclid, Books I. II. & III.; and Algebra, to Quadratic Equations inclusive;

(3) One of the following languages: Latin, Greek, French, Italian, German.

To obtain distinction in this Examination it shall not be necessary to take up more than the prescribed subjects, but candidates shall be at liberty to take up more than one of the languages specified, and also any one or more of the following subjects, viz.: Religious Knowledge, English Language and Literature, Geography and English History, Heat, Experimental Mechanics, Chemistry, Botany, Mathematics, viz. Euclid Book VI., Trigonometry including Solution of Triangles, and Elementary Statics.

Candidates may pass this Examination in two separate portions, of which the first portion must include parts (1) and (2), or parts (1) and (3).

4. The Second Examination shall include four groups:

Group i. Latin, Greek, Hellenistic Greek, Hebrew,
French, Italian, German, English including Early English.
Candidates must pass in at least two of these languages, of
which one at least must be Latin, Greek, or Hellenistic

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Greek, but Greek and Hellenistic Greek are not to be offered
as distinct languages if two only are offered.

tics.

ii. Euclid, Algebra, Plane Trigonometry, Conic Sec- Mathemations treated geometrically, Plane Coordinate Geometry, and Elementary Mechanics. Candidates must pass in each of these subjects and in one at least of the following: Elementary Differential and Integral Calculus, Optics, Advanced Mechanics, Spherical Trigonometry and Astronomy, Higher Algebra including Theory of Equations.

Science.

Group iii. Candidates in this group must pass in ii. Natural Elementary Chemistry and Physics and also in one at least of the following subjects: Higher Chemistry, Higher Physics, Animal and Vegetable Physiology, Comparative Anatomy with selected portions of Zoology, Vegetable Anatomy and Physiology with Classificatory Botany, Geology and Physiography, Mineralogy.

Literature,

Group iv. Candidates in this group must pass in (1) iv. History,
English Constitutional History and (2) Political Economy or &c.
Logic; and, unless they pass in both Political Economy and
Logic, they must pass also in one at least of the following:
Ancient, Modern or Ecclesiastical History, English Language
and Literature from Chaucer inclusive, Law, Moral and
Mental Philosophy.

Το pass in this Examination it shall not be necessary to
pass in more than one group, and to obtain Honours in any
group it shall not be necessary to take in more than the
prescribed subjects of that group, but candidates shall be at
liberty to take in more subjects in that group.

Conditions

for passing

and for

Honours.

5. Every candidate in the Second Examination shall be A Candidate required to satisfy the following conditions:

in the Second Examination must have

at

of

(1) To have been a Student at the College for least 26 weeks in each of three years or an equal amount time extending over more than three years, and to have attended teaching there during that time to the satisfaction of the University.

in each of

3 years,

(2) To have passed at some time the First Ex- passed the amination.

First Examination,

obtained certain Certifi

cates.

Special condition.

Manner of administration.

(3) (a) To have obtained certificates in at least two of the Annual College Examinations in a subject or subjects in that group in which the candidate enters for the Second Examination.

(b) To have obtained a certificate in at least one of the Annual College Examinations in a subject or subjects in a different group from that in which the candidate enters for the Second Examination; or, besides passing in one group in the Second Examination, to pass also in some one subject in a different group.

6. The persons referred to in II. 3 shall, before being entitled to the privileges indicated in that clause, be required to have passed an examination in Latin and also in one of the other languages named in III. 3 (3).

IV.

The Syndicate have had under consideration the manner in which this scheme should be administered. They think it desirable to avoid if possible so serious an increase of the severe strain caused by the outside work of the University as would be involved in the appointment of a fresh Syndicate and the creation of new machinery for the proposed Examinations. The Sections and Groups of the Senior and Higher Local Examinations are in general correspondence with the groups of subjects named in Part III. of this Report. The lectures at the centres from which proposals for affiliation are likely to come are under the superintendence of the Syndicate for conducting Local Examinations and Lectures, and it is expected that the teaching at these centres will continue to be to some extent at least under the control of that Syndicate. Thus there is machinery in existence, which may, with some modifications, be conveniently and properly used for the purpose of carrying out the proposed scheme. The Syndicate have ventured to enter into informal communications on these points with the Syndicate for conducting the Local Examinations and Lectures.

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