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WE printed last week the petition which has been presented to the Privy Council by the Association for Promoting a Teaching University in London. We have now before us the petition of University College and King's College, to which is appended a proposed draft charter for the University, under the name of the Albert University of London. If, as seems probable, the promoters have been well advised in claiming no less a surname than that of the Metropolitan district for which the University is to serve, the prefixed name of the late Prince Consort, to whom England is undoubtedly in debted for the encouragement his influence gave to educational and scientific work, is perhaps as good a way as could have been hit upon for avoiding confusion with the existing University. For the rest, the charter appears to be an adaptation to the circumstances of that granted to the Victoria University; the principal differences being—the place reserved for the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons in the University, which is one of complete equality with the governing bodies of the University Colleges themselves; the power conferred upon the legally recognized medical schools of London, as such, to claim, as of right, admittance to the University, on equal terms with the Medical Faculties of University College and King's College; and the greater simplicity of the governing body. In the case of the Victoria University a complicated division of authority was resorted to, with the view of obviating mutual jealousies between the various cities and towns in which, in that case, the several Colleges were to be situated. The Senate proposed for the Albert University consists of three members chosen by the governing body of each College associated with the University; the College of Physicians and College of Surgeons being reckoned among associated Colleges, if willing to accept the position, but the twelve medical schools not being so reckoned; of four members representing the assembly of each Faculty, such assemblies being composed of the teaching staffs of all Colleges or medical schools admitted in respect of the Faculty; and of six representatives nominated by the Crown in the first instance, of whom three are eventually to be replaced by representatives of the graduates in Convocation.
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The Proposed Teaching University for London . Nature 37, 339–340 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/037339a0
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