EDUCATION PROBLEMS

Evening Star, Issue 14531, 6 December 1910, Page 7

EDUCATION PROBLEMS

UNIVERSITY REFORM. The Court of Convocation of the middle university district considered the question of university reform at Wellington |last night. A subcommittee reported, after discussion with representatives of the Professorial Board of Victoria College : (1) That the college governors do not mako adequate provision for university studies or research. (2) The facilities for modern university teaching are not equal to the maximum required for efficient university. (3) Tho details of the curricula for degrees and of the syllabus for individual subjects are technical matters, and therefore university teachers should ex officio take a defiuite and regular part in all this portion of aca-hjiuic legislation. (1) Tho external examination system is—(a) educationally unsound, as it unduly exalts examination, and divorces it from teaching; (b) decreases the sense of responsibility of making complete, and adequate provision for teaching. (")) That a Royal Commission should be appointed to take evidence both within and without New Zealand, and.to recommend such changes as will give tho Dominion a modern and efficient university system. The report was adopted.