Engineering School
Sir, —Much money has been spent at the School of Engineering in providing lecture rooms and laboratories, and if an effort is made there is no need to suggest that entries into the school be restricted. Half the time the space provided is not occupied, and it is possible to have two streams of students. Of course more staff would have to be engaged. In many countries thousands of students are given courses, where we are worried with a few hundred. Buildings do not make a university, as the Chinese realise when they establish temporary universities at large engineering sites; they learn by doing. Some time ago the medical profession restricted entries into the Medical School by selective grading, and now there is a complaint about the shortage of doctors. There were 15,000 engineering students at the Peking University when I was there, and the end product is in my opinion just as good as in New Zealand.— Yours, etc., P.J.A. October 8, 1969.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32114, 9 October 1969, Page 16
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