UNIVERSITY SENATE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4294, 1 March 1901, Page 7

UNIVERSITY SENATE

PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, February xS. jAt the meeting of the University Senate to-aay. tlie re pore 01 (.lie i.aw loimn.uet recommending certain alterations in tin law examinations was adopted. The report or the Committee in Engineering was brought tip. 'the recommendations mailt a complete alteration in tin engineering examinations. 'The Sciiati: considered the report in committee. Tlie I 'oiniiiivtee on Engineering presented a report embodying several alterationsin tne engineering coarse. The principal feature o£ the report was that it pro* posed to create a new degree, viz.. L.-sc., in electrical engineering. 'tlie Senate accepted the recommendation to create tne new degree. It was also decided i.o consolidate the four engineering examinations into two. the iiist examination not to he taken tiU the end of the candidate's second academic year, and the second examination nut ft he taken till the end ol the candidate t fourth academic year, with a proviso tliai portions of each examination may he taken at the end of the first and third years respectively, Ti'c details of the engineering courst were also considerably altered, jbaruenlarly with reference to mathematics (foi which diiTerent papers are now to be sei for scholarships and for honours) and physical science (the papers tor which arc tc he raised in all engineering branches tc the standard of the B.A. degree). A telegram was received trom A. L. Currie, Christchurch, who was third or, the list of junior scholars, relinquishing his scholarship, and in accordance with the ordinary practice, the registrar win instructed to oiler the scholarship to D. s. Chisholm who was first on the list ol an successful candidates. The Senate, on consideration of Sir Robert Stouts, motion for the introduction ol the subjeci ol education among tlie subjects, presell lied for the B.A. degree, passed tne following resolution: —"The Senate, aln run its conviction of the importance oi hav’iiij, teachers instituted in pedagogy, ami desires that the subject should as early af possible receive a recognised place in tut curriculum of study, wlietner by me appointment of lectureship* or by its being attached to the chair of mental science; and that e. representationi to tnu effect be made to the councils of tne several university colleges. The Semite is of opinion that although the subject oi pedagogy cannot, he regarded as an equivalent to any of the already recognised subject!: for degrees, an arrangement might oc made for its being taken as an extra subiect by teachers who are also taking mental science, and in event of their pass.n,, a special certificate might ne issued oi proficiency in that subject. The Committee on Authors and Periods reported that they were ol opinion Una the ceremony of conferring degrees should in all cases take place in public. L i recommend that a statute bo made an to - lows • —“Every degree gamed by examinations Shull be conferred in public > tlie chancellor or a deputy appointed 5 him, either at a public for the purpose at one ot the tom P“ n «- pal towns of the colony 01 at a 11 cU g of the University Somite. the K ' u mentation vmtj *uloptecl. . v The Committee on Authors and Pen - recommended than the ' subject foi the Macmillan Brown prize for tne ymn IJUz be “The Future of Imperialism. recommendation was adopted. Br Saimoml pointed out that this e say hnd to be dealt with m an imagine, u manner. He thought it might lie P oss >| )le to get an alteration so use!ul to the .