UNIVERSITY REFORM.

Evening Star, Issue 14964, 26 August 1912, Page 5

UNIVERSITY REFORM.

[Per United Press Association.]

WELLINGTON, August 2G

University reform was brought under the notice of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Education by a deputation to-day. It was explained that last session the Education Committee of the House reported in favor of a change in the constitution of the Senate and in the system generally. The deputation asked that an outside expert should bo appointed to make an independent and exhaustive report to the Government. One of the speakers suggested that a Royal Commission should be appointed to inquire into the proposed reform of the university system. What they called an education system was not an education system at all; it was merely a system—a good system, it was true—of public instruction. The Prime Minister, in reply, said that the question of Education Reform appealed to a Reform Government. Regarding the suggestion that the teaching staffs should have more say in connection with the control of education, he said that the. Inspector-General was now reporting on that subject. As to finance, ho believed that the charges at Victoria College were lower than in any of the other centres. Ho was strongly of opinion that there should be uniformity in the fees. As to the setting up of a Royal Commission, lie would submit the preyvMl *» hi* colleagues.