UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2767, 10 May 1916, Page 6

UNIVERSITY OF NEW ZEALAND.

THE SENATE AIvD THE BOARD OF STUDIES. ■ Sir,—lt is quite obvious that the Universitj- Board of Studies, as at present constituted, is not only an. "expensive toy" (as the Chancellor suggested at the last meeting of the . Senate), but also a, menace to the cause of higher eduictioa in the Dominion. Here is u, body (I ha Board of Studies, consisting of tiventy. University professors—representing general University politics; and with no de- 1 finite authority to represent any., faculty, whatever!) meeting annually, at considerable cost to this Dominion, merely to indicate to the Senate, the supreme cvurt" of the University (which meets a.inonth or two latter, annually) what business affecting the , educational and examinational affairs of the University, it (tlis Senate) should deal wifchi and hew it should deal with it! In other words: a Board of Studies, consisting of twenty professors, meets annually to indicate to the twenty-four members constituting. th» ; Senate, wlio meet a month or two later,; what they (the twenty-four members of' the Senate, nearly half of whom' aie, or have been, University professors) should do or leave .undone! t

.'Can any of your readers suggest a. more grotesque situation? It is a case of double legislative chamberism of the . worst type, and if this Dominion can tolerate expensive luxuries of this order, it is educationally, if not politically,-mak-ing itself pass under a.yoke'which has "made-in-Germany" writ large on it! . What mates the thing 'the greater farce is that several professors have.seats on both bodies! If the Board of Studies is to serve any good purpose in'the educational economy 'of-'" this .Dominion,, .it mushbe' reconstituted iii such a way that at every annual meeting one of the several s University faculties will be fully and officially represented.—l am, etc., END OR MEND. , May 9, 1916.