UNIVERSITY REFORM

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1740, 3 May 1913, Page 7

UNIVERSITY REFORM

ASSOCIATION'S' ANNUAL REPORT. i The annual report' of the committee of tho University Reform Association states, inter alia, that during the year many of the Univcrs'ty teachers of tho four colleges spent a great deal of tims and energy -on B.A. and B.Sc. courses, and on the vexed question of examination methods, so that when tho conference met it was able, in the few days that it sat, to formulato complete proposals for pass courses and for the method of examination. "It must be gratifying to members of this association, states the committee, "to realise that the general body of professors throughout •New Zealand should, at its first meeting, decide that reform in the University was necessary, and that the reform siiould proceed oil lines already advocated by this afsouialion. 'I'lt'C ccniereuce condemned the present pass courses and present external method of examination, and niado suggestion free from the .serious objections that haVc been urged against the present conditions. The Senate s rejection of all these proposals and its abolition of the conference have produced a crisis in the control of the University, especially as the Senate now admits that ■the present constitution of the University is "unsatisfactory. . Your committee believes that the retrogressive action ot tho Senate at its last meeting has so impressed the other University centres and the general public that there is every probability that each centre will forward a petition asking for-an inquiry into the management of the University. . , , fiiere. are si"i'.s that tho community is being aroused to the fact that an inquiry into tho University is necessary, and it is hoped that by another year s work the association will have the satisfaction of seeing a thorough overhang of the methods and organisation of the New Zealand University."

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