HONOURS DEGREE IN SCIENCE

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27750, 30 August 1955, Page 9

HONOURS DEGREE IN SCIENCE

SENATE’S DECISION WELCOMED The approval given by the New Zealand University Senate last week of the bachelor of science degree with honours being taken at Canterbury University College came as a result of painstaking and thorough work by the science faculty, said Mr W. J. Cartwright at a meeting of the Canterbury University College Council yesterday. . "This degree is something of an epoch as far as this university is Concerned, and it will be interesting to see it develop, as I understand it provides for a very comprehensive degree,” he said. “The proposal passed through the Sente without much opposition, because the way had been paved so thoroughly by Professor J. Packer and his assistants. I move that hearty congratulations be extended to them for the very fine work they did in instituting this degree at Canterbury University College.” Professor Packer said he hoped that the degree would be put into operation next year and that the first batch of students would be taken then. The new degree of bachelor of science with honours in physics, chemistry, zoology, botany, geology, geography or psychology, will be taken only at Canterbury University College in the meantime.