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BIRMINGHAM.—The twenty-third yearly meeting of the Court of Governors is to be held on February 8, and a summary of the events of the past academic yefef will be presented in the reports of the council and pprincipal (Mr. C. Grant Robertson}. The number of students during the past session showed a slight falling off, and the proportion of women increased, except in the Faculty of Medicine, in which it was lower than it had been for some years. It is hoped to repeat, during the present session, the post-graduate course on “The Medical Aspect of Crime and Punishment,” for qualified practitioners, which was given last year by Drs. Maurice Nicolls (lecturer in psychotherapy), Hamblin Smith, W. A. Potts, and Percy T. Hughes. Sir Frederick Mott has been appointed, for three years, lecturer in morbid psychology. A Board of Research in Mental Diseases, on which the University and the Asylums Committee of the City Council are represented, has been formed. Sir Frederick Mott is honorary director of research, and the funds are being supplied by the Asylums Committee of the City Council. The most urgent need of the University at present is the removal of the biological group of sciences to new buildings at Edgbaston. This would set free room at Mason College which is urgently required for the Faculties of Arts and Medicine. Reference is made to the successful work of the Workers' Educational Association, and the importance of the co-operation of the University in that work:-“It is essential that the educational work should be controlled by the Universities, if only to secure the right standard . . ., and the need of additional qualified University instructors ... is already apparent.”
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 111, 167–168 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111167b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111167b0