UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 335, 23 October 1908, Page 4

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS.

INCREASE OF CANDIDATES. The examinations of the University of New Zealand for degrees, honours, scholarships, and in medical and legal professional subjects will commence in seventeen centres of tho Dominion oil Monday, November 9. Tho matriculation, general knowledge, medical 'preliminary, junior university and senior national scholarship examinations will commence in thirty-two centres on Tuesday, December 1. Tho number of candidates for tho November examinations is 871, for the wholo of New Zealand, as compared with 612 last year. The number for Wellington is 218, as compared with 201. Tho New Zealand candidates for tho December examinations total 1550, as against 1396 last year, Wellington accounting for 231, as against 213. All the figures show an increase this year, but tho increase is proportionately greater for the degree cxapiinations than the others. Tho higher total for November examinations is due to several causes. There has been a largo incrcaso of law and other professional candidates, a considerable increaso of B.A. candidates, and a largo number will sit for certificates in individual subjects, owing to the fact that the Education Department now accepts tho IJiiiversity certificate for individual subcets, in connection with the classification of teachers, and does not require a section of a degree to bo passed.