Course At Lincoln For Sixth Form Pupils

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31760, 17 August 1968, Page 14

Course At Lincoln For Sixth Form Pupils

Sixty sixth form pupils from 21 South Island secondary schools (excluding Christchurch and Dunedin) will go into residence at Lincoln College this week to attend a course in which they will be able to handle laboratory apparatus not normally available in schools.

Mr D. B. McSweeney, senior lecturer in rural education, said the college had a longstanding interest in improving the quality of education of pupils in areas outside the main cities.

Many talented senior pupils in these areas rarely had a chance to visit laboratories, research centres or universities to see in action the equipment and techniques they read about in their sixth form work.

Eight laboratory activities have been planned and the pupils will be taught how to handle the equipment, and will then carry out exercises for themselves. Professor T. M. Morrison, director of studies for the course, said that from his experience last year when the first course was held, he had no doubt the p.upils would be able to cope with their

demanding programme. Four of the activities cover radio-isotopes, computer science, X-ray methods of analysis, and nucleic acid biochemistry. A computer and an electron microscope will figure prominently in the course.