UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 201, 23 August 1904, Page 2

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

An important conference of the University Council, the Professorial Board and the Graduates' Association was held yesterday, and we understand that it was decided to adopt a combined policy in respect to the agitation now proceeding for a proper recognition of Auckland's claims to being placed oil at least an equal footing of efficiency with the Southern university institutions. The discussion was very prolonged, and there were advocates for different methods of procedure. Some of the members desired to confine the present movement to securing the School of Mines, but it was finally decided that, in view of the Premier's letter to the Council, asking for a definite statement of Auckland's requirements, and the seeming probability that those requirements would receive more attention at this time than at a later period, it was decided that the Government should be asked for substantial support in the following directions: l.The establishment of a School of Mines with building and annual maintenance provided. 2. The provision of adequate building accommodation for the college. 3. The enlargement of the scope of the teaching to meet the new requirements, more particularly in regard to education as a profession, and to meet the new statutes of the university. For this purpose it is necessary to provide established chairs of educational science, political science, law and modern languages. 4. To support the action of the Senate in asking Government to provide residential accommodation at the college. This is the more necessary in view of the establishment of national scholarships, the proposed School of Mines and the effect which will shortly be felt of the work of the Dilworth Institute. The opinion was expressed in regard to the proposed School of Mines that if it should happen that Auckland's agitation for a School of Mines of her own led to the transference of the Dunedin School to Auckland, every facility should be afforded the students to complete their course.