Calendar: 1966-1967 Page 362

Annual Report of the Delegacy xxxvii ACADEMIC STUDIES Since the publication of the last annual report number of senior teachers have retired after long and outstanding service see xix and number of the younger staff have found promotion in other universities and colleges both in this country and overseas However the College has again been remarkably successful in filling these vacancies with professors and promising young scholars from other universities in spite of the very poor accommodation and meagre amenities it can offer this reflects great credit upon the staff here who continue to do excellent work in teaching and research The degree examination results in 1965 have been outstanding and it was particu- larly gratifying that of 42 candidates for the General Sc 13 were awarded First Class and 11 Upper Second Class Honours The publication of the Report of the Committee on Higher Education brought to head number of movements which had been stirring within the universities for some time There had long been dissatisfac- tion with the overspecialised nature of many undergraduate courses particularly in the faculties of Arts and of Science and broadening of the basis of each subject and greater freedom of choice was ardently desired Great progress towards this end has been achieved in Science following the recommendations of number of committees which had been assiduously examining these and related problems during the last eighteen months The new regulations will give colleges greater freedom to devise their own courses to give such slant and emphasis to their teaching as is best suited to the needs of the students and the special skills and interests of the teaching staff and finally under proper university control to conduct their own examinations In this way it is hoped that London graduates will have wider range of competence having been trained in more flexible way and become better fitted for the complexities and changing conditions of modern life At King's the Sc Special and Sc General degrees will be re- placed in October 1966 by new Sc degree on which honours may be given Students will be allowed wide choice over three-year period of individual courses of study either within single discipline or from number of related disciplines Each course will have numerical value in units and minimum number of these units must be obtained before the student may qualify for degree While all of the former single subject courses of study such as Chemistry and