EXEMPTED STUDENTS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 283, 27 August 1935, Page 5

EXEMPTED STUDENTS

New Regulations Adopted

UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO

Dominion Special Service,

Dunedin, August 2G.

At a special meeting of the Professorial Board of the University of Otago held to-night, the controversial question of exemption of students from attendance at lectures received further consideration. . The board decided to rescind regulations which it had previously drawn up and. to adopt the following rules and appended notes for its guidance m dealing with applications for exemption : — , , “Exemption from attendance at lectures in a subject'shall be granted only to a student who is able to satisfy the Professorial Board (a) that he is prevented from attending lectures in that subject by the fact that lie is earning his living, or (b) that such attendance would involve undue hardship.” The notes are:—“(1) In considering an application for exemption in a subject from a student who is on the roll of a secondary school or technical college and is receiving tuition for a degree examination in that subject as part of the curriculum of the school or college the board will interpret_ the above rules as permitting exemption to be granted only where hardship, financial or otherwise, has been established to the satisfaction of the board. (2) When a student applies for exemption on the ground that he is earning bis living his application must be countersigned by his employer.” /