KEEP STANDARD HIGH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 167, 17 July 1931, Page 9

KEEP STANDARD HIGH.

NEW ZEALAND UNIVERSITY. SCHOLARS AS PROFESSORS. DEGREES TO FULL-TIME STUDENTS (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. Professor Arnold Wall, of Canterbury University College, in an address at the annual capping ceremony at Otago University College, said if high standards of scholarship were to be maintained in our University we ought first to establish the principle that in making appointments the very best scholars should be sought and no other consideration should be allowed to interfere with this aim. Then, added the .speaker, we ought to maintain the present practice of appointing examiners from outside the University staffs, especially at the

honours grade, though 'not necessarily limiting ourselves to the universities of Britain. Next, we ought to grant degrees to full-time students only. Changes in respect of the setting, moderating, and marking of papers, and in thn general system ""of examining, will follow naturally wherever they are proved to be necessary if these three forms of protective work are safeguarded.