MATRICULATION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 680, 3 December 1909, Page 8

MATRICULATION.

'■:-;,'. IS THE STANDARD TOO LOW? ! ■■ (By.■ Toltßraph.—Special.CorresDondent.). ■ ~ ■.;'•■' : , - CHristchurch; December 1. . ;The assertion by,the professors :of tho various coHeges.tliat the matriculation standard is too low was-discussed by .the principals, of'several secondary schools yesterday. - \-\ . .-■' '■:'.• ■' Mr.vC. E!Bevan Brown, headmaster of the Boys' High School,! said that he approved.'of the ..made.- by■Mr'..-. G. Hogben, that the. authorities might'accept from , the princir pals; of -schools - a ; certificate-.-that pupils had had a! four years'- course which could take the'placo!. of'-.the'-'.-matriculation /examination; ,:.' ..:.•'.. ';:',-■ •'■ ' :.'"-The'Bev. !C. H. 'Moreland,,'headmaster 'of CShriSfs College, said that the present eiamina',tion;was, in. his opiiiioh-.a'trifle too.'easy...to • serve the purposes: of a '/university, entrance : examination, "while, if! it was taken merely as! \a- 'Weaving-school examination," it was a' trifle too'stiff. ,The:.«urriculum'-."of 'Christ's. College went, quite far enough 'to any, student for' entrance to. .a. university,. and,even overlapped the university some extent/. - Miss M.- .V.;' Gibson, • principal'" of : tho. Girls' .High School, said' that ■•'the' majority' of her .pnpils took tile matriculation examination' as a."leaving-school examination',' , for which'pur,pose;it was.'admirably snited-j.but.in her-opin- , 'ion it,was not.of ahigh'epough standard ; 'f or, a university entrance, examination, as was .shown •by.'the very • large,.' 'percentage - of. passes.; ■ U!p ; vtill- recOTtly;.6o!. per •cent.'"of'her- pupils who .passed-.'the exainination'.'had ;not. gone ,on ; . to, the .'university., ■. but-. ; latterly; "!tho r number - ,who took, advantage, pf, the; facilities provided , for 'university stnde'nts-had increased. ' : She,did,'not.. cphsider, :that'.'the ; standard;.,of the matricula'tion. e'xaminations rhadjfalien■;from what.-it'"had■ ,;beeh ; in : tho. : 'past;:'VJudging ;by -lewht.papers she'f.had:. seen..they;.i.were,'it i anything, 1 ' a .little! ..more'Vdifflcult. , -.-. '■■' , : iV v>■','''-:' ..! ' ".- ■. .■■":. -, : ,-^v;