UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20708, 7 March 1942, Page 5

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

NUMBER RESTRICTED AUSTRALIAN MEASURE MELBOURNE, Feb. 5. Regulations will be issued under the National Security Act empowering the Minister for War Organisation of Mr. Dedman, to direct any university to restrict the number of students in any course as he sees fit. The regulations also will give any university which receives such a direction power to select the required number of students from candidates for enrolment according to order of merit in competitive public or other approved examinations. Students who fail in any year of a course in which the number of students is restricted, will not be enrolled to repeat that year, except in special circumstances. Mr. Dedman announced these decisions after a meeting of the Production Executive. Last week a conference of Vice-Chancellors and representatives of Federal departments concerned reviewed the position of universities in the light of the war situation.

Mr. Dedman pointed out that university students in certain courses (medicine, dentistry, engineering and some branches of science) were exempt from military service under the reserved occupations list. In other faculties students were not reserved, and the Defence authorities had decided that only a limited number of those liable for military service should be exempt, he said.