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IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
written argumentation of
at least three specialists
in the subjects concerned,
express themselves
regarding the fitness and
relative competency of
the applicants. Then the
greater consistory
proposes three of these
applicants for appointment in
the order of their
relative merits. Against this
recommendation an appeal
may be made to the King.
After the vice-chancellor
and the chancellor hare
expressed themselves, the
appointment is made by
the Government. — But
if there is a prospect of
acquiring for the vacant
professorship a scientific
man known for
extraordinary skill, the
respective faculty or section may,
before the place is publicly
declared vacant, by a
majority of */s of its
members, determine to offer
him the position. In such
a case the method of
procedure is simplified by
sending the
recommendation of the faculty,
together with the opinion of the greater consistory and of the vice-chancellor, to
the chancellor, who presents it, together with his own opinion, to the
Government for decision. — Laboratory and observatory asisstants are appointed in
a similar way, only that the chancellor makes the final appointment. Docents
are appointed by the chancellor on application, or on recommendation by the
professor concerned, after the faculty or section in question has given its opinion.
— The above system of promotion being, in many cases, considered antiquated,
the Government has appointed a committee to propose reforms, and this
committee has recently (1901) submitted its report, recommending various changes
in existing conditions.
The total number of teachers at the universities and the Caroline Institute
amounted in 1900 to 289, of whom 76 were professors in ordinary, 56 associates,
20 laboratory and astronomy assistants, lecturers etc., and 137 docents. Of
the 132 ordinary and associate professors, 14 belonged to the faculty of
theology, 15 to the faculty of law, 48 to the faculty of medicine, 31 to the
humanistic section of the faculty of philosophy, and 24 to the section of mathematics
and natural sciences of the same faculty. Of the whole number, 61 belonged to the
University of Uppsala, 49 to the University of Lund, and 22 to the Caroline Institute.
The salaries of the professors in ordinary is 6,000 kronor (with an advance
of 500 kronor after five years of service, and another after ten); of the associates
University Palace., Uppsala. Entrance Hall.
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