EXAMINATION FEES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25579, 5 July 1944, Page 4

EXAMINATION FEES

STATEMENT BY UNIVERSITY REGISTRAR FURTHER CONSIDERATION (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 4. “In view of various statements which have recently appeared in the press concerning university examination fees, the University desires it to be known that the new scale of fees, which has been introduced to distribute the costs of the University more fairly among the different faculties and to remove the fee for graduation, as well as to meet the costs of University administration, has been under consideration for some years, and was finally passed by the Senate at its meeting'in January, 1943,” states the registrar of the University of New Zealand, Mr I. F. McKenzie.

“All statutes passed by the Univer-. sity must, before coming into operation, •be approved by 1 the Governor-General-in-Council,” Mr McKenzie said. “ Following the usual procedure, ■ the draft amendments of 1943 were placed before the Education Department, which after inquiry from the appropriate authority, deemed that no departure from the usual practice was necessary, and the statutes were finally approved by the Governor-Geiieral-in-Council in.. June, 1943, to come into effect on January 1, 1944. Fees at the new scale were paid for all entries closing on’May; 1, and are being received for entries closing on July 10. “At the request of the Price Tribunal,” Mr McKenzie added, “members of the Senate have been consulted, and it has been decided that all correspondence on this matter shall be considered at the next meeting of the Executive Committee, called for July 28.” ,