UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 13 May 1926, Page 11

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

SURPRISING FIVE YEARS' GROWTH. NEW ACCOMMODATION TAXED. Si.v idrr. of the remarkable growth of I :.".-.-iiy education in Auckland in tic l.i-: rive years wa3 given to-day by IV- : •-- rr Segar at the Town HalL . '•Although we have just opened the new buildings, we find that in some respects we are compelled seriously to consider how alterations in the furnishings can be made to increase the accommodation of certain rooms," the professor explained, "and already the actual use of the rooms has had to be altered to some extent to accommodate classes that are larger than were anticipated." Since the building was planned some four or five years ago, the increase in the number of students had exceeded all the anticipations of the college authorities. They thought at the time that they were providing comfortably for at least some 20 years to come, but j already they were meeting with pres- , sure that they did not anticipate until late in the thirties. In fact, the demand for university education was •rrowing more extensive and more intensive. The growth of knowledge and the increasing use of such knowledge in every department of modern life was increasing the need and consequently the demand" for university education. "Within my own experience in Auckland. I can remember when the university colleze depended almost entirely for new students upon the sinsrle school occupvin- the buildings which the college has" just vacated/ continued Professor Se-ar. "Now there are numerous schools within the city and suburbs, and many j scattered throushout the province, all sending well-trained and prepared students to the University." |