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A BOLD policy has been adopted by the Senate of the University of London with the view of solving one of the oldest and most difficult questions in relation to the organisation of University education London—the question of establishing a close association between college courses of study and the examinations for university degrees. The college selected for this experiment is the Imperial College at South Kensington, comprising the Royal college of Science, the Royal School of Mines, and the City and Guilds (Engineering) College. Of these Colleges, the Royal College of Science has always adopted a distinctive method of training its students, based on the intensive study of one subject at a time. The impracticability completely adjusting the degree examinations of the University to this system of training, conjoined with general desire on the part of the College for freedom framing curricula, led to a prolonged and somewhat embittered controversy between the College and the University, in the course of which the College authorities adopted the extreme measure of applying for the status a separate University. This failed, as other attempts the kind had previously failed: but the fundamental problem remained unsolved.
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H., T. College Courses and University Examinations. Nature 116, 3–4 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116003a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116003a0