STUDENTS AS TUTORS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21830, 19 June 1934, Page 6

STUDENTS AS TUTORS

UNIVERSITY DECISIONS v MATTERS OF FINANCE JL decision to empower professors to utilise the services of advanced and students as tutors in an honorary capacity was made by the Auckland University College Council yesterday. It was stated that in the science department such tutorial work might take the form of demonstrations, while in English classes it might mean tie organisation of a reading circle, or, in French, of a conversation circle. Professor Maxwell Walker expressed the opinion that such work would be in the best interests of the students themselves. The decision was one of several made on the recommendation of an education committee which had received reports from the Professorial Board on a series of suggestions made by Professor P. W. Burbidge. Professor F. P. Worley and Mr. E. EL Bullen, in their sabbatical leave reports. ' It was decided to take no action in regard to suggestions that the functions of the education committee of the council should be vesited in the Professorial Board and that a principal should be appointed. The executive of the Professorial Board, in reporting on the question, expressed tbe opinion that in view of the extended powers recently granted bv the council to the board it was unnecessary to proceed further with the suggestion. The council decided not to press for concerted action in securing a Royal Commission on university finance, but instead to take informal steps for concerted action by the four colleges in the matter of finance. It was stated by the president, Mr. Kenneth Mackenzie, that statements concerning the absence of salary reductions in universities overseas were not quite correct, as there had been reductions of up to 20 per cent in two of the Australian States and reductions of even greater size in Canada and the United States.