EXEMPTED STUDENTS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 269, 27 August 1935, Page 4

EXEMPTED STUDENTS

NEW REGULATION ISSUED.

THE VALUE OF A DEGREE.

(Per Press Association). DUNEDIN, This Day

The question of extra-mural students was considered by the Professorial Board of the University Council yesterday evening, when it was decided to rescind the previous (regulations and grant exemption from attendance at lectures only to students who satisfy the board that they are prevented from attending by the fact that they are earning their living or that such attendance would involve undue hardship. The hoard issued a general memorandum expressing the view that the recent growth of University classes in New Zealand secondary schools was a retrograde movement. The board expressed the further view that a University degree should certify completion of a course which has included the essentials of University education, not merely success in examination, and that the value of a degree depended almost wholly oni how far it did so. The report concludes: “Realising the effect which the abuse of the extramural system is having on the standard of degrees, the board is> forced to the conclusion that some restrictions must be imposed. At the same time it was never suggested that genuine cases should meet with anything but sympathy and encouragement.”