82. Mr. F. HALLasked the President of the Board of Education whether professorial tenure at Bristol University is secured by Statute or Ordinance: if not, by what means; will he state the precise terms of the standing order of council or agreement under which professors hold office; whether such terms provide for the consideration of the case of any professor threatened with dismissal by the senate; and whether such terms are in accordance with the views expressed by his Advisory Committee in their Report issued in 1912?
Mr. PEASEI have no official information as to the conditions of professorial tenure at Bristol, but I understand that they are secured by standing order and also by a formal agreement with each individual professor under the university seal, and that they provide that after a probationary period of two years the professor cannot be deprived of office except by a definite procedure involving right of appeal to the University Court. The Board's Advisory Committee have expressed no opinion upon these conditions of tenure. As I have explained in reply to former questions, they propose that the tenure and status of professors should form the subject of special consideration before the next assessment of Grant in 1916.