SOLDIERS AND THE UNIVERSITY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 159, 31 March 1919, Page 8

SOLDIERS AND THE UNIVERSITY

CONCESSIONS TO RETURNED MEN.

Speaking on the subiect of concessions to returned soldiers to enable them to enter-the University, the Hon. .T. A. Hanan (Minister of Education) said that .it appeared to be nut generally' known that at .tho last session, .of'the New Zealand University Senate an amendment for the benefit 1 of those men had been made in the regulations governing- the matriculation examination.. The' alterations that soldiers who have been placed at a disadvantage by theii ?ervice as ineinbei 1 !! of the , New Zealand Forces may be exempted provisionally from the examination for matriculation on presentation of a provisional certifitfltn of—/a) A Joint-Matriculation Board of English Universities;,or (b) the Military Education Board of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force or (c) a Professorial Board .of an affiliated college'/ At tho end' of the student's first year th° Pro-, fw-sorinl Board., is to advise the. Senate ■whether the matriculation should be confirmed. anciy if so, whether it should be dated from the time of entrance or from the end of the first voar. Application for provisional exemption • should bo made to the TWslrav. of the Universily at which it is desired to attend.