TRAINING COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION.
TO THE EDITOB. Sir, —I am relieved to see that the Auckland Education Board has expressed disapproval of the new Training College entrance examination. It is most unfair to make this change, desirable as it is in itself, without a much longer warning. Students were led to believe that the D examination was all that was required for entrance to tho Training College, so after getting the D certificate they entered on their university course; and many have obtained the first section of the B.A. How can they do justice to school teaching—the second entrance examination and classes at tho university? Then, again, students with their higher leaving certificates obtained in 1929 find they have to begin working up subjects which they had discarded after matriculation as being of no further use to them. Changes in the university examinations are never brought in without reasonable warning, and those who entered under an older system are given time to complete. If those responsible would look more closely into the matter they would see tho injustice of it all.—l am, etc., Parent, March 7.
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Evening Star, Issue 20428, 8 March 1930, Page 22
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