Volume 3

An account of the reconstruction of the University of London / compiled by W. H. Allchin.

Date:
1905-12
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Credit: An account of the reconstruction of the University of London / compiled by W. H. Allchin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    qualification for registration under the Medical Acts, it was exceedingly doubtful whether such a provision could be maintained, and, if not, the very existence of the Colleges as licensing bodies would be threatened. It is to be observed in passing that this provision brought the Apothecaries Society, which had no status in the London University scheme, into the same position in respect to the Albert University as the Royal Colleges themselves held so far as their licensing examinations were concerned; whilst representation of the Society on the Council was also provided for. The Medical Schools would occupy a merely nominal position as schools of the University, without direct representation on the Council, which was scarcely different in reality from their present relation to the existing University, whilst they were liable to be taxed for the maintenance of the University should the income from examination fees be insufficient (clause xxiii). ^Although by the formation of Assemblies of the Faculties and Boards of Studies medical and other forms of higher education would undoubtedly benefit, these advantages were not dependent on the way in which the Royal Colleges and Medical Schools were treated in the Charter, but would have been equally well provided for under the altogether difierent and better arrangements of the Senate's scheme. Moreover, in the Petition to the Privy Council from the Association for Promoting a Teaching University in London, from which the Albert Charter had developed, a more important position than was now proposed was accorded the Royal Colleges (Part I., p. 195) In view of the communication from the University then before the College, it was at least possible that some more satisfactory association might be established than was offered in the Albert Charter, which as it stood was, in the opinion of the Committee, quite unacceptable. In conclusion the speaker moved— That while not objecting to the grant of a charter by the Crown to University and King's Colleges in London, the Royal College of Physicians considers that the provisions of the charter