SCOPE OF IMPORT CONTROLS
University Teachers’ Precaution (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Feb. 16. A number of university teachers who returned from England in the Ruahine today left funds there to buy text books which they believe are shut out by New Zealand’s import control. Dr. i. G. A. Pocock, who is going to Canterbury University as senior lecturer in political science, said: “We’ve been afraid there will be technical books we want which we cannot get, so we’ve prepared for it.” Dr. Pocock hks had three years at St. John’s College, Cambridge, on a history fellowship. Before that he was a history lecturer at Otago University. He said the two main trends in English education were toward modification of the plus" system (the examination which determines wh»t school children go to after 11 years of age) and towards increased technical education. - '
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28822, 17 February 1959, Page 9
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