BURSARY CHANGE

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 21

BURSARY CHANGE

Students Pleased fN.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, July 2. The New Zealand Universlty Students’ Association welcomed the improved bursary system announced by the Minister of Education (Mr Kinsella) and was grateful to the Government for its introduction, said the president (Mr A. Taylor). The provision of a new second examination at upper sixth level would provide a final year incentive with concrete rewards without limiting all-round development. The existing scholarship system prohibited all but brilliant students from extra curricular activity, he said. There was a possibility that rather than developing further interests, the new examination could lead to more intensive specialisation. The association would welcome a variety of options in the general field of humanities with the choice left to the school. This would also give valuable new insight into some university subjects. The new system should also be sufficiently flexible to allow students to present some subjects in the present scholarship examinations and others in the new examination. Students could thus concentrate on higher academic standards in some selected subjects. The association also considered the scheme could well be extended to cover students entering university from the lower sixth, or by provisional entry if they showed academic ability to the standards required of the other entries, he said.