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 214 THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA

Roman Catholics, 37,242 ; Hindus, 115,701 ; Buddhists and Confucians, 1,783 ; Mahomedans, 45,842 ; no religion, 3,012,648 ; others and unspecified, 45,861 ; total, 4,697,152.

Instruction.

Under the South Africa Act, for a period of five years after the establish- ment of the Union and thereafter subject to decree of Parliament, control of education other than higher education was granted to the four Provincial Administrations. This arrangement still obtains. For practical purposes it has been provisionally determined that all post-matriculation instruction shall be deemed to constitute Higher Education,

Higher Education. — By legislation enacted in the Session of 1916 three Universities, with teaching and examining functions, were established in the place of the University of the Cape of Good Hope, provision being made for the conversion of the South African College into the University of Cape Town, of the Victoria College into the University of Stellenbosch, and of the University of the Cape of Good Hope into a federal University, styled the University of South Africa, with the remainder of the University 7 Colleges as constituent colleges, the names of which, with appropriate details, will be foun.l in the table hereunder. The actual establishment of the three new Universities took place on April 2, 1918.

The University Acts of 1916 also established two Boards, one consisting of representatives of the three Universities (South Africa, Cape Town and Stellenbosch), the Provincial and Union Education Departments, and of the teachers of public and private secondary schools, which is charged with the conduct of the matriculation examination, and the other for the conduct of the professional examinations in law and surveying.

General statistics in regard to teaching universities and constituent colleges of the University of South Africa, 1918, and totals for 1919.

College

Year of Foundation

and Incorpora- tion

1829 (Incorpora- ted 1837)1

1866 (Incorpora- ted 1881) «

1918 3

1855

Normal Expen- diture for vear 1918

No. of Pro- fessors

No. of Lec- turers and Assis- tants

49 28

No. of Students, 1918

Male

Female

Total

University of Cape/

University of Stoll j enbosch. . . "i

University of Soutln Africa: Const ltu-J ent Colleges —. J

£

87,50

22,500

26

21

531 41

121

129

652 548

Grey University Col-j lege, Bloemfonteini

Hraaenot College,) Wellington . . .j

Rhodes University}

College, Giahams-

(Incorpora- ted 1910) 1874

(Incorpora- ted )'.)07

1904

11,100 5,300 15,000

8 8 12

9

4 12

100

8

69

29

48

72

129 141

1 As tlic South Africnn College— constituted the University of Cape Town on April 2,

1918.

2 As the Victoria College— constituted the University of Stellenbosch on April 2, 1913. s On the dissolution of the University of the Cape of Good Hope (founded 1873)