MEDICAL STUDENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 68, 21 March 1935, Page 24

MEDICAL STUDENTS.

LIMITATION AT DUNEDIN. CHANCELLOR EXPLAINS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) DUNEDIN, this day. "There appears to be a misconception regarding what has been done," said the Chancellor of Otago University, Mr. W. J. Morrell, in a, statement regarding the limitation of medical students at a meeting of the University Council. For the second year, he said, 84 students had applied for admission, and of that number 58 had passed at the November examination or had obtained an equivalent qualification and had been accepted. One student had withdrawn, the number;thus being reduced to 57. The quota fixed by,the- council and approved by the University of New Zealand was 60, so that, three vacancies had been left to be filled. As. the result of a special examination two candidates tied for third place. He : ' had consulted with Sir Lindo Ferguson and they had agreed that there was no alternative but to accept both of the students who had tied, and a communication had been sent to the vice-chancellor of the University of New Zealand, who had approved of the suggestion. Everything had been conducted in strict accordance with-the conditions laid down. Those who had' passed the intermediate examination, but had been rejected by the Medical School, he added, had been given credit for the Bachelor of Science degree in the subjects in which they had passed.