UNIVERSITY COUNCIL
EXTRAMURAL STUDENTS ‘' RETROGRADE MOVEMENT.' ’ THE BOARD'S DECISIONS. ( Per Pre.is Association.) DUNEDIN, Aug. 27. The question of extramural students was considered by the University Council’s Professorial Board last evening, when it was decided to rescind the previous regulations and grant exemption from* lecture attendance only to students who satisfy the board that they are prevented from attending by the fact of earning a living, or that such attendance would involve undue hardship. The board issued a general memorandum expressing the view that the recent growth of university classes iu New Zealand secondary schools was a retrograde movement. The board expressed the further view that the university degree should certify completion of a course which has included the essentials ot university education, not merely an examination success, and the value of the degree depended almost wholly on how far it did so. The report concludes: “Realising the effect which the abuse of the extramural system is having on the standard of degrees, the board i.s forced to the conclusion that some restrictions must be imposed. At the same time, it was never suggested that genuine cases should meet with anything but sympathy and encouragement.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 201, 28 August 1935, Page 8
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