PROVISIONAL MATRICULATION
AGE REDUCED TD TWENTY-ftNE YEARS [Per United Puess Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, January 21. The age for provisional matriculation will be lowered from twenty-five to twenty-one, according to a motion carried to-day by the senate of the University of New Zealand. The object of the clause_ is to admit some persons under certain conditions who have not passed the university entrance examination but who desire and are thought reasonably fit to pursue a course of the university. The clause as it stands at present allows such provisional matriculations to be granted to persons not under twenty-five years old. This clause was adopted by the senate originally to provide for returned soldiers, allowing them to take a university course without formally passing the entrance examination. At first tho age was thirty years, and was later reduced to twenty-five. It is now to be reduced to twenty-one.
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Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 5
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145PROVISIONAL MATRICULATION Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 5
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