University Entrance
Sir—l am most interested .o see "Citizen’s” views on the University Entrance examination and his comparison between the Russian and our educational system. I dispute his statement that this country needs every graduate it can get. It should by now be common knowledge that a high percentage of our graduates leave the country immediately, for the bulk of their working lives. This indicates either that we do not need the numbers of graduates we produce, or that conditions overseas are better for them than here. Surely this latter cannot be true since no just and equitable bureaucratic government would plan deliberately to ensure that valuable men left our country if indeed they were needed. It would be better, therefore, not to increase the number of graduates, but rather decrease the number and raise the quality even higher, thus ensuring a better market overseas for the fourth New Zealand major export—butter, wool, meat, andbrains.—Yours, etc., . FOURTH EXPORT. June 29, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29245, 1 July 1960, Page 8
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