BRITISH STUDENTS FOR EMPIRE UNIVERSITIES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22696, 22 July 1948, Page 5

BRITISH STUDENTS FOR EMPIRE UNIVERSITIES

(11.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. Professor I. A. Gordon (New Zealand) proposed to the congress of universities of the British Commonwealth that more young people should leave Britain to attend universities in the commonwealth instead of only professors and lecturers.

He said that young people left Commonwealth universities to do research work in Britain, but those who went out from Britain were mostly people going to high academic posts. Professor John Medley, vice-chan-cellor of Melbourne University, suggested that Commonwealth students should be encouraged to attend universities in other parts of the Empire as well as in Britain.

The congress adopted a recommendation that universities should aid scholarship students from other universities.

The congress recommended that each Dominion organisation should suggest to its Government that at future UNESCO conferences Government delegates should include university representatives. Oxford University conferred an honorary degree on Sir David Smith, chancellor of the New Zealand University.