It is interesting that Nottingham should be the latest of
the Univer- sity Colleges to be raised to University status—which means that it will have the right to confer its own degrees, like Oxford and Cambridge and London and the rest, and incidentally invest its graduates with distinctive hoods and orthodox gowns. Ever since the Barlow Report urged the increase of the number of university students in Great Britain (this includes both universities and univer- sity colleges) from 50,000 to Too,000, it was obvious that not only would existing universities have to expand to the utmost, but that new universities would have to be created, in some cases by the elevation of university colleges to university status. Among the latter, Nottingham is easily the largest—it is a good deal larger indeed than Reading, which became a university in 1926—and its 1,200 students will no doubt increase now that it has the power of conferring degrees. Mr. B. L. Hallward, who was a classical his- torian at Cambridge and recently resigned the headmastership of Clifton to become Principal of Nottingham, obtains the higher status
• of Vice-Chancellor instead. He will have a great responsibility and a great opportunity.
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