UNIVERSITY PROBLEMS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1934, Page 13

UNIVERSITY PROBLEMS

VISIT OF DR. HARROP

THE EXAMINATION SYSTEM

Dr. A. J. Harrop, representative of the University of New Zealand in England, with Mrs. Harrop and family, arrived by the Akaroa from Southampton yesterday, and will remain in New Zealand for some months. It is eleven years since Dr. Harrop was last in tho Dominion.

Dr. Harrop expressed the opinion that the contemplated changes in the examination system and the necessity for developing closer contacts, with the universities of Britain made it advisable to devise some scheme for exchange of professors and lecturers.

"I have certain proposals to place in the first instance before the executive committee of the University Senate," he said. "If these are- approved in principle I hope to confer with the collego authorities concerning the most practical way of bringing them into force. One of the proposals is, I think, entirely novel so far as universities are concerned, ■ and 1 'think it will create considerable interest both, in Britain and in New Zealand when details have been sufficiently %vorkcd. out for a further announcement'to be made." .

After a fortnight in Wellington, Dr. Harrop will visit Christelmreh and Dunedin, and, later, Auckland. As lie represents the University and Auckland, Victoria, and Canterbury. University Colleges on the Universities' Bureau of the British Empire, ie will discuss ways and means of making the bureau as useful as possible to New Zealand. Ho will probably take up the question of the supply of university text-books.