UNIVERSITY LECTURES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22198, 27 August 1935, Page 10

UNIVERSITY LECTURES

EXEMPTION OF STUDENTS RULES ADOPTED IN OTAGO [by telegraph—OWN correspondent! DUNEDIN, Monday At a special meeting of tho professorial board of Otago University held to-night, the controversial question of the exemption of students from attendance at lectures received further consideration. The board decided to rescind the regulations which it had previously drawn up and to adopt the following rules and appended notes for its guidance in dealing with applications for exemption: " Exemption from attendance at lectures in a subject shall be granted only to a student, who is able to satisfy the professorial board 'a) that he is prevented from attending lectures in that subject by the fact that he is earning his living, or (b) that such attendance would involve undue hardship. " Notes. —(1) In considering an application for exemption in a subject from a student who is on the roll of a secondary school or a technical college and is receiving tuition for a degree examination in that subject as part of the curriculum of the school or college, the board will interpret the above rules as permitting exemption to' be granted only where hardship, financial or otherwise, has been established to the ■satisfaction of the board. (2) When a student applies for exemption on the ground that he is earning bis living his application must be countersigned by his employer."