UNIVERSITY TRAINING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 24, 28 January 1911, Page 5

UNIVERSITY TRAINING.

In the course of a speech a,t Chrietchurch, Mr. T. E. Taylor..M.P., discussing university education, said Idiat he agreed ■with the movement, whiah wag in favour of more enoouragevnent 'being given to original research work. A very serious question was, " Why do ao many of our students go to the Old Country for •their university training and degrees?" The University system ought to be such that J there could be no legitimate excuse for a student going to the other end of; the world for 'his degree. It <had been suggested that the functions of teaching 'and examining, which were .divorced in the university, should be joined, and ihe was inclined to believe that it was a wise 1 suggestion. There was a good deal of duplication in the four university colleges, and the result was that three or "fbiir professors were doing the work •which ought to be done by one. As.far as the teaching of agriculture was concerned he believed that i.t would hnve to be made a leading subject at the technical classes, and there should also be farma ■where the pupils w>l2d apply what they .had learned at their classes.' Lincoln College -was, to some extent, a class 'institution, and would never solve tOie problem- of agricultural education for the masses.