UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 38, 14 February 1924, Page 8

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

DEGREE IN AGRICULTURE. PROFESSOR RICHARDSON'S REPORT. (By Telegraph.- —Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. The annual. session of the Senate of the University of New Zealand was resumed this afternoon, the Chancellor, Professor J. Macmillan Brown, presiding. The Senate received a report by Professor A. E. V. Richardson, of Melbourne, on the degree in agriculture, and a criticism of it by the director of the Lincoln School of Agriculture. The main changes recommended by Professor Richardson were summarised as follows: (1) Education of the routine farm work at Lincoln College by omitting manual work in the third year. (2) Strengthening of the teaching of fundamental sciences by providing a special course in agricultural botany and plant pathology at Canterbury College to supplement the course in botany now given at Lincoln College in the third year; and by increasing the time devoted to . agricultural chemistry at Lincoln College; and by providing a course in agricultural geology at Canterbury College in the second year. (3) Strengthening the course in technical subjects by a course in, agricultural engineering, surveying and levelling to be taken at the engineering school at Canterbury College in the third year, and by a special course on rural economics to be given in the third year at Canterbury College. (4) Encouraging specialisation by prescribing investigational work along some branch of agricultural science in lieu of the practical work now prescribed for the fourth year of the course.