UNDER FIRE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17572, 24 June 1925, Page 1

UNDER FIRE.

’VARSITY COMMISSION. “ COMPETITION NEEDED IN EDUCATION.” Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, June 21. The University Commission will sit in Wellington to-morrow. The Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, -will be unable to attend, but has submitted a written statement in which he comments deprecatingfv on the fact that the Commission is composed of men from outside New Zealand. The New Zealand system was formulated as the result of the investigations of a special commission. The present facilities for University education should surely be known to the Education Department. Sir Robert Stout does not think that the present commissioners can furnish any aid to the betterment of the existing system. Professor Macmillan Brown, who is now en route to Honolulu, writes lengthily criticising the proposal to substitute four separate universities for the present federal system, which, he considers, provides the surest means of insuring competition without arousing hostility. Without competition there could be no progress, recognition of which fact had led to the appointment of examiners in England. lie could not see how the present matriculation system could be superseded with any advantage.