PHARMACY EXAMINATIONS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16921, 30 December 1925, Page 8

PHARMACY EXAMINATIONS.

HIGH STANDARD OF TEST. PROFESSOR PAYORS COLLEGE. The icieiit examinations held 'by the Pharmacy Board resulted in :\. large percentage, ni' failures. Mr. G. L. Donaldson, secretary fur the examining body, •slated at Ohrisfchurch when questioned on tile matter that the percentage of failures was not excessively high. In .section- A one student sat and failed, in sebtion B 17 sat and 14 failed, and in section 0 nine sat and six failed. In .section B three candidates withdrew and did not sit for their second subject. Dr. IL G. Den ham, professor of chemistry at Canterbury College, said there was a movement to matce the pharmacy linal examination equal in standard to the medical intermediate, and that, ho thought, would cause the failure of 80 pe' cent, of the pharmacy candidates. The pharmacy students to Canterbury College to do practical work in chemistry, but for theory they rdied upon coaches. They were not recognised as a university class, and their work was hardly up to university standard. He was in favor of the proposal to have a pharmacy college where students could obtain concentrated training. There was «i. 'college in Queensland where work was done on these lines.