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§ Mr. James Boyden (Bishop Auckland)I beg to move,
That this House disturbed by the growing number of well-qualified students unable to secure admission to a university and of qualified applicants rejected each year by teacher training colleges, by the inadequate facilities in many colleges of advanced technology and similar institutions, concerned by the shortage of doctors and medical auxiliaries, physicists and mathematicians, engineers, trained social workers and numerous other professional categories, mindful of the warnings of vice-chancellors about the impediments caused to university expansion by recent financial policies, and aware of the need for universities and colleges of advanced technology to develop more research and widen their range of teaching, calls upon Her Majesty's Government to make much greater efforts to expand all forms of higher education so that all students capable of profiting by university and other higher education may have the opportunity to do so and that many of the hindrances to economic and industrial growth may be diminished by a greater investment in higher education.The best thing that I can do at this time of day in support of the Motion is to read a sentence from the last Report, published today, of the University of London—