N.Z. UNIVERSITY DELEGATES

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25547, 15 July 1948, Page 5

N.Z. UNIVERSITY DELEGATES

CONFERENCE WORK IN BRITAIN SIR DAVID SMITH AND PROFESSOR GORDON (Bee. 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 13. After visiting several of the universities of Great Britain, Sir David Smith, Chancellor of the University of New Zealand, and Professor I. A. Gordon, the Vice-Chancellor, have returned to London before going to Oxford to attend the conference of the universities of the British Empire. - Since their arrival in England last month they have had consultations with officials of the University of London, the University College of Wales, and the universities of Glasgow *and Durham, about problems of federal universities. Sir David Smith has also discussed forestry education with the head of the Oxford Forestry Department, and has reported to the Senate. Professor Gordon was an official guest at graduation ceremonies at Oxford, Edinburgh, and Liverpool. Both have also been making a special study of the University Grants Committee in Great Britain, and they have had discussions with officers of the Nuffield Foundation, the British Council, and London House, the residential hall for Dominion students, for which an appeal is to be launched in New Zealand. Before going to Oxford, Professor Gordon will attend a conference of vice-chancellors at Bristol University. The subjects to be discussed will include reciprocity of university superannuation within the British Commonwealth, and the seconding of university staff from the Dominions to Britain and vice versa. The interchange of young post-graduates and a proposal to hold small annual university conferences in different parts of the Commonwealth will also be considered. At the Oxford conference some of the main discussions will be on the relations between the State and_ the university, inter-university relations, and the balance between teaching and research. There will also be a critical review of structural and moral changes produced in modern society by scientific and technological adEariy in August Sir David Smith and Professor Gordon will attend the first UNESCO conference on university education at Utrecht. Dr. C. E. Beeby. New Zealand Director of Educataon and Assistant-Director of UNESCO, will be present at Utrecht and’also at the conferences at Bristol and Oxford. Sir David Smith will represent the New Zealand legal profession at the conference of the International Bar Association at The Hague. British Nationality Bill.—The House of Commons has adopted an amendment restoring the words Bntisn citizen” in the British Nationality Bill, and also deleting a clause inserted by the House of Lords which would have maintained the present status of Eire citizens as British subjects. The House of Commons restored the original clause enabling Eire citizens who are British subjects under the existing United Kingdom law to retain British nationality without forfeiting their status as citizens of Eire if thev live there.—London, July 14. '