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Annual Report of the Council xv report and Introduction At the first two meetings of your Committee May 4th 1973 and July 4th 1973 attention was centred on paragraphs 148 149 150 and 156 of the Murray Report These paragraphs emphasised the serious financial difficulties facing the Theological Schools in the Uni- versity of London depending on non-university sources of finance Lord Murray's Committee suggested as the only permanent solution the separation of the training of ordinands from the academic side of the activities of each School thus providing basis for the injection of public funds through the Court of the University and that solution on these lines would make it possible for the division between the Delegacy and the Council to be brought to an end and for the College to apply for charter on unified basis After considering evidence from many sources your Committee was satisfied that the education provided by the Theological Department was not denominational-students of all religious persuasions or of none were admitted-nor was it exclusively vocational for the ministry of the Church of England as many successful candidates chose to follow other careers such as teaching or social service Your Committee noted further that all entrants to the Theological Department had to possess the minimum university entry requirements None the less by the end of its second meeting your Committee was conscious of widely held if indefinable impression throughout King's College that the present dual constitution dating from the 1908 Act was out of date and that attempts to do no more than remedy its defects would in practice prove to be refinements rather than remedies The second meeting therefore instructed the Secretary to investi- gate further and to amplify proposal which had been considered on July 4th by the Committee as follows 'The assumption by the Delegacy of responsibility for the teaching of theology within the College with provision to be made for the Council to remain as the original grantee of the land on which the College is built and to continue to discharge its functions and to continue to be responsible for the training of ordinands general of joint committee of council delegacy of king college on the murray report