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BIRMINGHAM.—The report of the Vice-Chancellor to the Council for the year 1927–28, which will be presented to the Court of Governors at the annual meeting on Feb. 21, has been issued. The number of students for the session showed an increase on that for the preceding year, and a further increase appears in the present session. Pleas are advanced for the extension of the residential accommodation for women students, for an increase in expenditure on the library, and for more scholarships with which maintenance grants must be associated. The appointment of some senior members of the non-professorial staff to Grade I. is urged on the ground that, if retirement at the age of sixty is compulsory, those who have not held for some ten years a post with a salary of not less than £600 are entitled only to a pension which is quite inadequate to services rendered. The Vice-Chancellor reports that the voluntary medical examination of women students on entering the University, which was instituted two years ago, has met with complete success, and it is hoped that similar facilities may be offered to men students. The report of the Joint Standing Committee for Research records a substantial output of research during the session.
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 123, 228 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123228a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/123228a0