ENGINEERING DEGREE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 11, 14 January 1932, Page 13

ENGINEERING DEGREE

SENATE'S DECISION

'A GRAVE INJUSTICE

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") AUCKLAND, This Day. In tho course of an editorial, the "Herald" says:— "In refusing the application that the; Engineering .School at Auckland University College be recognised in respect to the third and final year of tho degreecourse, the University Senate has committed a grave injustice. The Engineering School has had a notably successful career. Year by year its roll has increased almost without a break in its progress save in the time of war. Thero has been a progressive recognition of its status for academic purposes by the senate. Its teaching, staff and equipment are adequate for the full degree course in all three branches of engineering—civil, mechanical, and electrical. Thero can be no reasonable challenging, of its efficiency, as for many years its students, prepared solely by its training, have qualified by examination for diplomas having recognition throughout the world. They have been eligible to sit for these examinations without the necessity of keeping university terms, and have naturally in many instances preferred to seek these diplomas rather than suffer the cost and inconvenience of going to Christehurch for the final year for the New Zealand degree. The decision of the senate means that either this cost and inconvenience will havo to be endured, or most Auckland students will still be virtually deprived of the opportunity of taking their own university's degree."