DECREE RESULTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 306, 28 December 1945, Page 2

DECREE RESULTS

LIMITING NUMBERS AGCOMMODATION PROBLEM Auckland, Dec. 27 Auckland University College, in common with university colleges in other centres, will probably be faced with the need to limit the number of students taking certain subjects next year because of lack of laboratory space and equipment. There is at present a restriction in the number to be enrolled for physics and this may have to be extended to chemistry, zoology and geology. It is expected that increased numbers applying for enrolment in subjects of die intermediate examination for de-

grees in agriculture, dentistry, engineei ing, medicine and home science, and for the fir. t examination in the degree in architecture will make it necessary to restrict the number of students to be admitted to these courses. So that the numbers may be ascertained as early as possible, the university has notified students wishing to study any of the subjects referred to, whether for bachelor of science or intermediate courses, that they must apply for admission by January 31. Until figures are available of the numbers requiring tuition in these subjects, it will not be known whether rest fictions will have to be imposed. Referring to remarks maje at Christchurch by Professor A. H. Tocker, rector of Canterbury University College, Mr. L. O. Desborough, registrar of Auckland University College, said that the position at Auckland was very similar to that at Cantei bury. "Oqr roll before the war was between 1100 and 1200,” said Mr. Desborough. "The numbers went down to about 900 in 1942, but last year the number of internal students reached 1900, and ind.nations are that we may have more than 2000 next year. Our laboratories, equipment and staffing are no larger than they were before the war, so the problem is a very difficult one.”

One educations; authority in Auckland expressed concern at what the effect of the restrictions would be on returning servicemen. "If this pro. cess of s'election to which Professor Tocker refers is to be carried out, it must inevitably mean the weeding out of these returning men, who naturally will not be able to compete with those who have just left school,” he said.