EXTRAMURAL STUDENTS

Evening Post, Issue 50, 27 August 1935, Page 7

EXTRAMURAL STUDENTS

STANDARD OF DEGREES

RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED'

(By Telegraph—Press Association:)

DUNEDIN, 3?his .Day.

The question of extramural students was considered by.''..the 'University: Council's Professorial Board last, evening, when it was decided to rescind the previous regulations and" grant exemption from lecture attendance only to students who satisfy the board that they are prevented from attending by the fact of earning then? living or that such attendance would involve undue hardship. .

The board issued a general memo-randum-expressing the view that the recent growth of university classes in. New Zealand secondary schools was a retrograde movement/ The board: expressed the further view that a university degree should certify'completion of a course . which has. included, the. essentials of university education, not merely examination success, rand, the value of a degree depended almosfi wholly on how far it did'so. ;

The report concludes: ."Realising the effect which; abuse of the extramural system is having on the standard of degrees, the board is forced to the conclusion that some restrictions niust be imposed. At the same, time "it was never suggested that genuine cases should meet with anything but symx&thv and encouragement,"'".