UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19801, 28 May 1926, Page 9

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

THE ACCREDITING SYSTEM FURTHER ACTION DEFERRED. (Peb United Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, May 77. The University Senate adopted the recoinmendations of the Entrance Examination Committee, first stating that the procedure which would be adopted in secondary schools (as outlined in the replies of th« heads of these schools to the committee’* circular) if the system of accrediting were established is quite satisfactory; but in view of the changes ponding in the matriculation examination and the establishment of a Secondary Schools’ Board, the committee does not recommend any further action at present. The procedure would be approximately as follows: —Certificates would be given as the result of both written and oral examinations. Teachers would be consulted in determining the results, and written examinations would be conducted by the members of staffs under the general supervision of the departmental inspectors. The procedure is the same as for the higher leaving certificates. The committee also recommended that the date for the operation of the changes in the science prescriptions at entrance examinations bo 1928 for the entrance scholarshin and 1927 for matriculation. As a safeguard against possible error the marks of examination papers should be forwarded to all principals of schools as well ns to candidates, and examiners should be reminded of the necessity of checking results before finally submitting them.

SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED. SUBJECT FOR PRIZE ESSAY. iPbb United Phess Association.) WELLINGTON, May 27. The Senate awarded the senior scholarship n contracts and torts to J. R. Drummond. ot the Auckland University College, and the senior scholarship in Roman law to H. J. Butler, of the Auckland University College. . . An additional senior scholarship in mathematics was awarded to Flora M. Wilson, of the Victoria College. Ths subject for the Arnold Atkinson memorial prize essay this year will __be “What is the policy of Australia and New Zealand towards the international problem of the Pacific!"