THE MSc. DEGREE.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13337, 1 February 1909, Page 8

THE MSc. DEGREE.

ALTERATION IN THE STATUTE

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AUCKLAND, January 29.

The facility with which those who havo passed their M.A. degree mayobtain the B.So. has been a matter upon which members of the University Senate now sitting in Auckland have expressed' themselves adversely at various times during the present session. This morning Professor F. D. Brown, moved a proposal, which, after slight amendment, wee put to the Senate in the following form: —(a) That the statute Master of Science, VI. (p. 146) be amended by the ommission of the words "without further examination," and by the substitution of the following:—"And pass a further examination in honours up to first or'second' class standard in. a subject, allowed, for honours in the B.Sc. degree, such subject not being that in which they have gained honours in arts, and l furnish a thesis where required by the statute" ; (h) That statue Honours in Arts, VI. (n. 136) be* similarly amended, and T,liat the subsequent honours examination bo confined to a subject from groups I. and , 11. of the subjects for honours in arts. yProfcE?or Brown said that this motion had arisen out of the facilities with which a etudent might go from M.A. io B.Sc. The motion would prevent the too great facility with which tho twd degrees might be obtained !>y the same person. The proposed' amend'meiit of th? statute vras to provide that if a studont gained honours in arts, and if ho wae to gain honours in science, he must go through the process of obtflining honours over again in a new examination. Then a student would have a reasonable right to claim that ho was a Master of Science as well as of Arts. Similar contentions were applied to the second portion of tho motion by the mover. The motion was carried.