UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18898, 26 June 1923, Page 6

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

SEGREGATION OF THE gFATFS OPPOSED. (From Ode Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, June 25. “I am entirely against this altogether conservative view, which seems to me to be boom© of the mediaeval and old monastic days,” said /the Minister of Education (the Hon. C. J. Parr) when his notice was drawn to a cablegram in to-day’s papers stating that in the course of the House of Commons debate on the second reading of the Bill for increased grants to the universities, Lord Hugh Cecil contended that a mixed university would bo disastrous to the education of both men and women and that the segregation of the seizes was in the interests of both. The Minister emphatically dissented from that view. “Ever since the early seventies,’’ he said, “and since our Now Zealand University was established, men and women have , been educated together. .Indeed, it is somewhat difficult for a New Zealander to follow Lord Cecil’s contention that there should be segregation of the sexes in university education. All our experience has been against that view'.”