Oxford and Working-Class Education
Being the Report of a Joint Committee of University and Working-Class Representatives on the Relation of the University to the Higher Education of Workpeople (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from Oxford and Working-Class Education: Being the Report of a Joint Committee of University and Working-Class Representatives on the Relation of the University to the Higher Education of Workpeople Alfred Wilkinson, Labour member of the Rochdale Town Council.
The Committee thus constituted has held five sittings, of one or more days, in Oxford between Christmas, 1907, and October, 1908. At its first meeting on December 27, 1907, the Dean of Christ Church was elected Chairman Mr. D. J. Shackleton, m.p., vice-chairman, and Mr. A. E. Zimmern and Mr. Albert mansbridgejoint-secretaries. For the better dispatch of some of its detailed business the Committee appointed two sub-committees - one to'deal With financial and administrative questions and the other With courses of study. The members of the Finance sub-committee were the Chairman, the vice-chairman, and Secretaries, together with Mr. Berry, Mr. Bowerman, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Marriott, and Professor Turner; of the Curricula sub-committee the Chair man, vice-chairman, and Secretaries, Mr. Ball, Mr. Lees Smith, Mr. Mactavish, Mr. A. L. Smith, and Mr. Wilkinson. The information collected and the courses drawn up by these sub-committees are contained in the Appendices to this volume.
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