B.C.A. Failures
Sir, —Professor Sidebotham of Victoria University says it is common for post primary schools to send their best students to the arts and science faculties, and the poorer students to accountancy. The failure rate in the new Bachelor of Commerce and Administration course has been disappointingly high. Accrediting has enabled large numbers of students to take accountancy in the sixth form and to be accredited U.E. in it, when many probably had little chance of passing the examination. Far too many pupils are led to believe they were doing well in a course. So often the subjects concerned are ones taken for the first time when the glamour of newness inspires, and some success follows, with a misplaced confidence emanating from the ease with which U.E. is attained in the subjects by accreditation. Let them all first pass University Entrance examination by sitting. Incidentally, rural high school pupils would then enjoy the same rights as city pupils.— Yours, etc., J. E. M. HARPER. Hawarden District High School. December 21, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31249, 22 December 1966, Page 12
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