UNIVERSITY COMMISSION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19364, 22 July 1925, Page 11

UNIVERSITY COMMISSION

YESTERDAY’S PROCEEDINGS.

(Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, July 21. The University Commission resumed to-day. Miss E. M. Johnston, lady principal of the Girls’ High School, Invercargill, stated that it was hard for girls to obtain entrance scholarships, largely because thc regulation required girls to take, during the first two years at a secondary school, a full course in home, science and practical housecraft. The only solution seemed to be the reservation of a certain number of scholarships for girls only. The latest regulations for the Medical preliminary made physical science a compulsory subject, home science being not accepted. In practice that debarred girls from thc medical profession. Bursaries though helpful wore inadequate. She suggested that it might be possible to have a training college for secondary school teachers. The present degree system, with its attempt to test work by a three hour paper, led to thc neglect of 'cultural subjects and the fostering of j cram. Mr Lawson, Professor of Education, gave his reasons to establish a system of State loans at nominal interest to assist deserving students. Outside the four centres, arts students unless well I to do were practically debarred from I university education. There was urgent need for thc establishment of a connecting university for it’ was belief that the needs of secondary education in New Zealand would be best served by the development of one secondary schools training college, since it would be difficult to select more than one properly equipped stall. Mr Tate stated that secondary education had so developed as to dominate both primary and university training. That might* be remedied by training secondary teachers.