Excluded Students Reinstated
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, February 11. Fifty students have successfully appealed against being excluded from Victoria University this year.
Another fifty who appealed were refused admittance. The convener of the Victoria University Professorial Board’s academic committee, Professor H. Gordon, said today that cases were examined on their merits.
others who had achieved nothing in a short time were the types barred. Those thought to have a reasonable prospect of success had been given another chance. Many of those who failed to gain admittance would have been wiser to have qualified for a career through channels other than the university, said Professor Gordon.
Some students who had been drifting along at the university for several years and
The secretary of the committee, Mr W. D. Dawson, said the rejected students were from ail faculties and were at different levels of study. About 1500 school leavers will start at Victoria University this year.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30983, 12 February 1966, Page 16
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