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education ? If you consider this preparation inadequate, have you any suggestions for the improvement of the present conditions ?
Do you consider the creation in this Presidency of ( a ) a new set of institutions in intermediate between High Schools and University ; ( b ) a new Board of Secondary and Intermediate Education such as was proposed by the Calcutta University Commission necessary or desirable ? If so, how should such institutions and such a Board be constituted and financed ?
If you consider intermediate institutions, with or without an Intermediate Board, unnecessary or undesirable, how without them could the level, range and effectiveness of existing High School education in this Presidency be improved ?
How may the University best secure the maintenance of efficiency in the institutions that send students to it for admission ?
III. Functions of the University of Bombay
(Questions 8-24)
( a ) Teaching (Questions 8-13)
In what directions is it necessary and practicable as well as advisable, in your judgment, to extend the function of the University of Bombay so as to make it predominantly a teaching University ?
Do you consider that the University should, in addition to postgraduate teaching take any direct part in under-graduate teaching ? If so, how would you reconcile and co-ordinate the teaching functions of the University with those of the existing teaching institutions ?
If you do not consider the University should take any direct part in under-graduate teaching, how by proper co-ordination would you utilise to the best advantage the existing facilities for under-graduate study ?
IV. Additional University in Bombay Presidency
(Questions 25-30)
- Is it desirable to constitute any additional Universities within the Bombay Presidency ? What Centres of higher education in the Presidency do you consider—
( a ) ripe for immediate expansion into Universities,
( b ) likely to be ripe in the near future, and on what grounds ?
- How would the institution of additional Universities affect the existing University of Bombay ? How would you secure co-operation, co-ordination, and reciprocity between the University of Bombay and the new University ? What arrangement do you suggest for the period of transition ?
VII. Constitution
(Questions 36-40)
What defects do you find in the constitutional machinery of the University of Bombay ?
What should be the strength, composition, duration of office, method