MATRICULATION EXAMINATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 96, 20 October 1937, Page 12

MATRICULATION EXAMINATION

(To the Editor.) Sir, —In answer to my letter published in the "Evening Post" on October 6 I have received the enclosed communication 1 from the Registrar of toe New Zealand University. I als<? enclose my reply, which contains a further request for information as to how the university proposes to make allowance to candidates. —I am, etc., W. H. STEVENS, principal, Wellesley College. Following are the letters referred to: "I have read with interest your letter to the Editor of the "Evening Post' as published on 6th inst. In this connection may I call your attention to toe notice published in the Press at the beginning of June with the authority of the executive committee of the senate, and to the intimation in the Education Gazette of August 2. By this means the senate had already endeavoured to inform the P U °"C generally and teachers collectively that some allowance would be made in the entrance examination for those canaidates whose studies have been interrupted on account of the.epidemic of infantile paralysis. In regard to your later statement, I have made inquiries and find that it is now some years since any complaint of toe type you mention has been received here in regard to the university entrance examination papers. I should esteem it a favour if you could advise me of definite cases in the last five years.—Yours faithfully, J. F. McKENZIE, Registrar, University of New Zealand." Mr. Stevens replied to the Registrar as follows: — "Your letter, dated October 11, fails to supply the information for which I - asked. lam still anxious to know,, and my anxiety is shared by others, how the university intends to make allowance to candidates whose studies were interrupted by the closing of the schools. I do not doubt that the 1 authorities have evolved some scheme i for compensating unfortunate candidates: but I see no reason for not ex--1 plaining it. So far as the final para- ' graph in your letter is concerned, you ' tacitly agree that errors, ambiguities, [ etc., have occurred on papers, and in ' the circumstances candidates are justifiably nervous since it is quite impos- | sible to give just compensation for. mis- ' takes of this kind."