REDUCED BURSARIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20820, 12 March 1931, Page 12

REDUCED BURSARIES.

GOVERNMENT ASSAILED.

COMMENT BY PROFESSOR.

" At such a time as this, when many changes are likely and necessary, the one tiling that should be safeguarded is the welfare of the human being who is to control affairs in the future," said Professor J. Shelley, of Canterbury Collego, when addressing a meeting in Christchurch this week. " The Government has felt the financial condition of the times," said Professor Shelley. "It has considered the Education Department, has reduced the number of teachers, and so enlarged the classes, and seen that the children will not be so well taught. Meanwhile the teachers go on to the street to join the ranks of the unemployed.

" Now, for fear that these people should get the opportunity of sending their children to the university to receive higher education, they reduce the bursaries. This is in spite of the fact that what New Zealand wants above all is more people who have benefited from higher education.

" There are ways of saving money that are advisable There are others that anyone should be prevented from adopting. This act is not policy, it 13 damnable nonsense."