RECOGNITION ABROAD

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 286, 29 August 1933, Page 10

RECOGNITION ABROAD

Examinations Passed by New Zealand Students TECHNOLOGICAL SUBJECTS A recommendation to the Education Department that a serious effort should be made to have New Zealand technological examinations recognised by examining bodies in other countries so as to allow students from New Zealand to practice wherever they may happen to be domiciled, was made recently by the advisory committee of the ■Wellington Technical College. A reply to this recommendation was received at las! evening’s meeting of the College Board of Governors. “In this connection I would mention that although by Royal Charter, the University of New Zealand’s degrees are entitled to recognition in academic distinctions throughout the British Dominions ; in point of fact, they are not recognised for ‘ad eundem’. purposes by most British universities, and it would appear unlikely that examining bodies undertaking technological examinations in other countries would issue their certificates on our examinations,” Mr. W. S. La Trobe, of the Education Department, wrote. “I may instance the case of the plumbers’ registration examinations, which are not recognised outside New Zealand, although ne, gotiations have been entered into with similar bodies in the Australian States. “I would further point out that the only way in which a certificate can be established is by the quality of those holding the certificate, and that this is necessarily a matter of time as well as opportunity. * “So far as the number of candidates is concerned, I may say that the total number of candidates for the New. Zealand technological examinations, and for the special examinations held on account of the City and Guilds of London in New Zealand, is approximately the same, and is distributed in the same manner over the various subjects as was the case before the establishment of our own examinations. The number of candidates formerly taking the City and Guilds’ examinations in the subjects now taken in the local examinations was about the same as now enter for the local examinations.” The/letter was “received” by the board, and the principal. Mr. R. G. Ridling. mentioned later that the whole question would be discussed at a general meeting of apprenticeship committees on August 30. He did not ihink the board should take any action until the decision of that meeting was known.