UNIVERSITY EXPANSION

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30274, 29 October 1963, Page 16

UNIVERSITY EXPANSION

UJL’s “Lesson For NX”

There wm a lesson for New Zealand in Britain's tremendous expansion of university building, said Mr W. J. Cartwright yesterday, but he thought New Zealand wm seized of the situation to a certain extent. Mr Cartwright, chairman of the Christchurch Poetprimary Schools’ Council, has been to toe universities’ congress at London University as one of three representatives from Lincoln College. He also visited Oxford and Cambridge universities. At Edinburgh University he saw a 14-«torey arte block rising high above toe other buildings of “that old-world city.” “A tremendous number of students are not getting into toe universities in Britain,” said Mr Cartwright “Their idea is to provide for the backlog as soon as possible by additional new buildings. “The Ministry of Education thinks that in 10 years they will have to double toe number of universities and increase the size of the smaller universities.” Mr Cartwright also found that the status of teachers' colleges was being raised to that of toe universities. That had been recommended for New Zealand, and he thought it would come.