EXTERNAL EXAMINERS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 28 January 1911, Page 13

EXTERNAL EXAMINERS.

"A DISTINCT 'ADVANTAGE."(By Telegraph—Press Association.) . Chrlstchurch, January 27. Interesting testimony as to the value of external examiners for New Zealand degrees is given ; by. Mr: J.- G; Lancaster,, M.Sc'., ,B;E:, Canterbury.Collcgo,' who recently returned from tho United States of America with several other graduates: of the engineering school at Canterbury .-College. Mr. Lancaster took, the electrical course with tho AVestinghouso Electrical Manufacturing Company . at' Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The course is a. two years' one and is open to graduate's ■ from recognised engineering schools all over, tho world. At present Mr...Lancaster estimated thero are about, four hundred graduates taking the course. Tho conditions upon which admission to the course is given are that'tho candidate must be a graduate from somo, recognised engineering university and his diploma must be reci: nised by the, company. Tho Canterbury College School of Engineering possesses a status that easily fills these requirements. . .

Speaking to a "Press" representative to-day Mr. Lancaster said that .it.ap peared to him and his fellow graduates from Canterbury' College that it was a distinct advantage that they had bsci examined .by.'tho external- examining body, for while New, Zealand was comparatively little known due weight wat attached to tho fact that the examining body was-in London,' a fact that appreciably raised the status of their degrees. - . .