UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN CAMP

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23661, 11 June 1942, Page 4

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN CAMP

EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES REPLY MADE TO COMPLAINT (P A.) WELLINGTON, June 10. Replying to a complaint by the Temuka branch of the New Zealand Returned Services’ Association, with reference to educational facilities for mobilised students, the University of New Zealand states that there is probably no university in the British Empire that has done more to minimise the hardships that must necessarily fall on mobilised students. At the outbreak of the war the University obtained through the Government an amendment to the University Act to permit giving reasonable concessions to mobilised students. -The university has held examinations _ in centres where soldier student? desired to be examined, including camps in New Zealand and overseas. A special committee of the Senate has dealt with more than 1500 cases of concessions to military students, and liberal concessions have been granted. The colleges of the University have done what they can to direct the studies of mobilised students, and to correct any work sent in by them. Mobilised students who take out their degrees have been exempted from graduation fees. Changes have been made in' the prescriptions of certain subjects so far as they fit in with the needs of the armed forces. ' Arrangements have been made to permit the colleges to hold certain examinations earlier, so that students may complete the work of the year before being called upon to undertake defence duties. The . University has strongly urged the Government to introduce a comprehensive scheme for the armed forces. The University has decided that it will not hold examinations -in defaulters’ camps.