UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 226, 28 October 1914, Page 11

UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.

CLASSES FOR WORKERS. Although workers' university - extern sion lectures have been conducted in Europe for some years, it is only recently that the idea has found its way to Australasia, and except for tutorial classes, which have been conducted in Christchurch by Mr Whitehead, of the Boys' High School, for the past six, months, there has been nothing of the kind originated in. New Zealand. Now, however, the Workers' University Extension League is organising classes in the chief centres, and the Auckland classes are already working. In Australia the League has had its classes organised in the capitals of each, of the States for six months past, and. the secretary, Mr Meredith Atkinson, of the Sydney University professorial staff, /is engaged in organising, the classes here. When a class is formed here the first lectures will be given by Mr Whitehead, followed by Dr Lester.