’VARSITY ENTRANCE

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 62, 6 December 1930, Page 8

’VARSITY ENTRANCE

Limited Matriculation PROPOSAL FAVOURED “There is no doubt about it that it would be an ideal thing to have a university entrance examination open only to those who intend to actually attend the university,” said Mr. F. Martyn Renner, secretary of the Secondary Schools’ Association of New Zealand yesterday in commenting on the steps which are being taken by the Education Department to restrict the matriculation examination to the secondary school pupils, who intend entering upon a course of higher education at a university college. Mr. Renner said that he was definitely in favour of the proposed leaving certificate, which would be awarded to pupils who had reached the standard of the university entrance examination. Sueh a procedure would allow the present eurri» culum to be widened, and would give a pupil a free choice in selecting subjects to his liking. The course for the matriculation examination was extremely stereotyped, and permitted of little variation. Questioned as to how he thought business men would view the proposed alteration, Mr. Renner said that it was a question of educating the people to it. As the business people seemed to require a standard of education these days up to that of matriculation, the new certificate should be looked upon favourably, as it would be up to that standard.