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considered as professional schools ; a condition of entrance is the passing of the Matriculation Examination, and attendance at some at least of the courses at the University colleges is compulsory, even for those students who do not take the full course for a degree. Further, on each Board of Advice of a training college one member is a representative of the Professorial Board of the University College, and the Principal of the Training College is, in every case, the professor or lecturer in education at the University college. Including the training colleges, and counting the professional schools as distinct from the affiliated institutions, we may say that there are in New Zealand fourteen public institutions for higher or professional education. [In addition, there are certain other institutions for professional education which are endowed private y or otherwise, and are chiefly concerned with the training of theological students, many of whom also appear on the books of the affiliated institutions.] At the four colleges of the University there were in all 1,493 students attending lectures during the year 1908 —namely, 888 men and 605 women ; of these, 1-,162 (698 men and 464 women) were matriculated students, graduates or undergraduates, and the rest were unmatriculated. The full numbers at the several colleges are given in Table M, which also shows the number of exempted students—that is, students who are prevented by the necessity of earning their living or by distance from a college from attending lectures, and are allowed to keep terms, except in certain science and professional subjects, by passing the annual college examination.

TABLE M.—Students on the Books of the Affiliated Institutions.

Number of Students, 1908. Auckland University College. Victoria College. Canterbury College. Otago University. I. Attending lectures (whether terms were kept or not), — (1.) Matriculated students,— (a.) Graduates, — Men Women 9 1 IS II I!) a 18 5 Total graduates attending lectures 13 29 25 23 (6.) Undergraduates,— Men Women 122 78 195 131 137 131 183 95 Total undergraduates attending lectures 200 326 268 278 (c.) All matriculated students, (a) and (h), — Men Women 131 82 210 145 156 137 201 100 Total matriculated students attending lectures 213 355 293 301 (2.) Non-matriculated students, — Men Women 50 77 Bβ ■22 I!) 89 8 Total non-matriculated students attending lectures 127 78 ss 88 (3.) All students attending lectures (1) and (2),— Men Women 181 159 266 167 205 176 236 103 Total all students attending lectures 340 433 381 339 II. Exempt students not attending lectures, not included above,— Men .. .. Women 1,' i!i:t 12 3 60 32 5 1 20 2 Total exempt students 15 92 III. Total all students I and II,— Men Women 193 162 326 199 1 210 177 262 105 Grand total all students 355 525 387 367 04