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AT the annual meeting of the Court of Governors of the University Birmingham, the Pro-Chancellor, Mr. Sydney vernal, announced that the progress of building at University would be accelerated in the present year by an increase in the available supplies of material and labour. Among the first requirement to be met is the extension of the students' union. At present a part of the new engineering building is well advanced, and it is hoped that a further portion will be undertaken very shortly. The estimated cost of the much-needed halls of residence is such as to postpone indefinitely their realization. Present needs have been met to some extent by the erection of a number of prefabricated huts which are regarded as temporary, though they appear to be more durable than the old wooden Army huts erected in 1919, some of which are still in use. The doubling of the University population during the ten years following the War was regarded as being in the national interest ; but Birmingham has already more than achieved this aim, the present number of students being between 3,250 and 3,500, a figure at which the Vice-Chancellor considers it might well be. stabilized.
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University of Birmingham. Nature 163, 394–395 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163394d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163394d0