MATRICULATION EXAM.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 19 February 1925, Page 7

MATRICULATION EXAM.

RAISING THE STANDARD. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 19. At the meeting of the New Zealand University Senate to-day the Chancellor, Professor M’Millan Brown, moved that it be referred to the committee, to report to the Senate, whether it is feasible to divide the matriculation examination into higher and lower the latter as a school-leaving examination, the higher as entrance qualification for the University, to indicate the student’s ability to write correct English, by the provision of an English paper in the examination, so that the capacity to write his own language correctly should he made an essential pass in both sections of the matriculation examination.

In moving the motion, which was carried, Professor Brown said that a very large proportion of the candidates for matriculation did not intend to enter a university or a profession. They sat for matriculation because the employers asked for a, matriculation certificate from those seeking employment. He thought the Senate should raise’ the standard for entrance into the nrofessional courses in the University.' ft was a pity so many candidates were not capable of doing justice. either to the examination or their profession. Examiners nil spoke in very strong terms of the incapacity of so *many candidates in the examinations. He was of opinion that it was high time the standard was raised, and the number of candidates, namely 5000, showed that it was so.