UNIVERSITY COMMISSION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 July 1925, Page 7

UNIVERSITY COMMISSION.

SCHOLARSHIPS FOE- GIRLS. (lit TKI.KGIt AVJf. I’ll KSS ASSOCIATION.) . DUNEDIN. July 21. The University Commission has re-1 sumed. i Miss E. M. Johnston, lady principall or the Girls’ High School. Invercargill, j stated that it was hard for girls tf> oh- j tain entrance scholarships, largely because the regulations required girls to take during the first two years at a secondary school a full course of home science and practical housecraft. The only solution seemed the reservation of a certain number of scholarships for girls only. The latest regulations' for the medical preliminary made physical science a compulsory subject, home science being not accepted. In practice I hat debarred girls from the . profession. Bursaries, though helpful, were inadequate. She suggested that it might- he possible to have a training college for secondary school teachers. The present degree system, with its attempt to test work by a three-hour naper, led to neglect of cultural subjects and the fostering of cram. Mr Lawson, professor of education, gave reasons for establishing a system of State loans at nominal interest to assist deserving students. Outside the four centres arts students, unless well to do, were practically debarred from university education. The needs ( of secondary education in New Zealand would be best served by the development of one secondary schools training college, since it would be difficult to select more than one properly equipped staff. Mr Tate stated that secondary education had so developed as to dominate both primary and university training. That might be remedied by training secondarv teachers.