UNIVERSITY REFORM.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13908, 6 December 1910, Page 7

UNIVERSITY REFORM.

BOYAL COMMISSION SUGGESTED

(KKSB ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) t >.' WELLINGTON, Deoember o. C »\The Court of Convocation of the . Middle University District considered the <juestipq of University reform to? - Sight A aub-committeo reported, - after discussion with representatives of • .the -Professorial Board of Victoria ■ College, aa follows:-— (1) That tho College Governors do V Jwt make adequate provision for uniIfwuity studies or research. (2) Facilities for modern university * teaching are not equal to the maximum •required for efficient university tfain- ■ ' »2. .

' ,(8) Details of curricula for degrees and of the syllfiibus for individual subjects are technical matters, and there- ■ fore university teachers should ex officio take a definite and regular part in alt this portion of academic legislation,' .-(4) That tha external examination • {system is (a) educationally unsound; as „it unduly exalts examination and ! divorces it from teaching; and (b) de- . creases "th© sense of responsibility of tasking complete and adequate .proviitn for teaching. A 5) That a Royal Commission should w appointed to take evidence both Wthin and without New Zealand, and to recommend such changes aa will give the Dominion a modern and efficient University system. ; The report was adopted.