EXCHANGE OF STUDENTS.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20173, 27 February 1931, Page 13

EXCHANGE OF STUDENTS.

NEW ZEALAND AND GERMANY.',/ ' • ' VV«/J:Vi^ SCHEME now in force. t , s ,' . - Any student of Canterbury ,College who wishes to study abroad may ( now i have free room, board, and tliitioil■ at any one of the German "Universities or technical schools which "he v carßs to 1 select.' Similar advantages are 'avail-, able to any German student who wishes to study in New Zealand. This important system o! exchange has bjeert decided, upon and undertaken by - the , German Academic Exchange in pbrijunction with the New Zealand University.'' The proposal waa first brought- before' the Board of Governors of Canterbury College at a meeting toward the- end of last year. The College Committee of tho Board- then reported th&t the advantages of such a system of exchange were fully recognised; and, ; in' reply .to a letter from Dr. Klaus Mehnert, of the German Academic Exchange service, the Board expressed willingness to reciprocate in the scheme, and recommended that it should be adopted ■ < * The following letter has now bteen received from Dr. Mehnert: — ■ "I acknowledge the receipt of your kind letton of August 19t£' with, Regard to the of graduated'students between New Zealand and Germany. *'l