UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
Sir,—This week the results. of . the higher stage university examinations were announced. I think that the facts arising from these should be publicised. In one of the science subjects, where most of the candidates were in their final year, 30. per cent, of them were not credited with passes. This ruthless treatment. has been necessary simply because, if more students were passed, there would not be room in the university to permit all those wishing to proceed to a master s degree to do so. Surely this frustration of youth could have been avoided. To be allowed to proceed so far and then be debarred is distressing. The war (the usual excuse) has been over long enough for temporary accommodation to have been secured. One had hoped that this would be a land oi opportunity after the war.—Yours, etC " OBSERVER. December 28, 1945.
[“There is absolutely no evidence that the examiners failed students because of the lack of accommodation, said Professor A. H. Tocker, rector of the Canterbury University College, when this letter was referred to him. “Further, it is highly improbable that the examiners would take any account of the accommodation position, and there can be no foundation for the assumption of the correspondent.”]
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24763, 2 January 1946, Page 2
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