ENTRANCE SCHOLARSHIPS.
PROPOSED ABOLITION. ! FURTHER INQUIRY SUGGESTED. friV TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORItES PO N PEN T.] DUXEIHN. Thursday. Tlio proposal of llio Rcrcss Education Committee to abolish university entrance scholarships was referred to in a report from the professorial board received at a meeting of the Otago University Council The hoard reported that it recognised that in the matter of entrance scholarships pupils of country secondary schools were at considerable disadvantage compared with those of town schools It strongly disapproved, however, of the particular method which the committee proposed to adopt for the purpose of removing this disability. While admitting that there might have been, through no fault of the university, undue dominance of secondary education by the requirements of the entrance scholarships, the board contended that it Vlrd not necessarily follow that the scholar shin system was at fault The board whs emphatically of the opinion that before the drastic change suggested bv the committee was made the subject of legislation, full evidence should he called from all bodies con cOrnefl The report was noted.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20673, 19 September 1930, Page 14
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175ENTRANCE SCHOLARSHIPS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20673, 19 September 1930, Page 14
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