BANKING DIPLOMA
SENATE DISCUSSION
ALTERNATIVE EXAMINATION
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, January 20.
The desire of the New' Zealand Bank Officers' Guild to have the school certificate examination accepted as an alternative to the university entrance examination as a preliminary to the diploma in banking gave rise to discussion in the Senate of the University of New Zealand.
The matter was introduced by the pro-chancellor, Mr. H. F. yon Haast, who moved that the question of the acceptance as an alternative to the university entrance examination of the school certificate examination (as recommended by the New Zealand Bank Officers' Guild) for the diploma in banking be referred back to the executive committee with instructions to receive a deputation from the guild on the matter and to report to the senate.
Mr. yon Haast said they ought to hear what the guild had to say. The diploma in banking was on a different footing from the diploma in insurance, which was given by the insurance authorities and not by the university. It was said that the insistence on the matriculation or entrance examination was tying the hands of teachers in the schools. A deputation from the secondary school teachers had made a strong plea for greater freedom.
Mr. W. J. Morrell, Dunedin, and Mr. H. J. D. Mahon, Auckland, supported the motion.
The vice-chancellor, , Professor T. A. Hunter, Wellington, said he hoped the senate would not agree. To all intents and purposes it would make the school leaving certificate another entrance examination. The remedy was perfectly simple. If the guild objected to the entrance examination of the university it could confer the diploma itself. If it desired to have a university diploma it should be prepared to comply with university conditions.
Mr. F. A. de la Mare, Hamilton, expressed the opinion that these examinations should be taken over by the banking and other institutions concerned.
The motion was carried,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 17, 21 January 1936, Page 16
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