UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE
Comment on the policy governing the university entrance examination was made by the headmaster of King's College, the Eev. H. K. Archdall, at the speech day ceremony (states the "Now Zealand" Herald). He said he believed the- first essential of progress in secondary education in New Zealand was the laying down of a definite number of years at a secondary school as a necessity, before a pupil could proceed to the university.. It seemed to him a very unwise policy to admit students to the university after three years at a secondary school, for a smart boy could pass the matriculation in three years. A certain amount of general maturity of outlook and independence of character was necessary if students were to make the best use of university life. He would like to see it laid down that no pupil could proceed from a school to university until after a minimum of four years of secondary school work, and then, later, the minimum could be raised to five years, as it was in Victoria and: New South "Wales. There, could be an age limit, say,-18. years,-', for students not. from secondary schools. Some such course of action, was necessary if the standard of university.entrance was to be raised.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 147, 19 December 1933, Page 21
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