BOARD OF STUDIES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 48, 20 November 1919, Page 5

BOARD OF STUDIES

SITTINGS CONTINUED. The Board of Studies of tho University of New Zealand continued its sittings yesterday, l'rofessor 11. W. Segar, of Auckland, presiding. On the motion- of Professor Kankine Brown, it was resolved that the Sonata' be recommended to institute a Degree of l'ltilosophy similar to that which has Wen established in most of tho British universities. Detailed proposals on tho subject were referred to a committee. Jt was resolved,-an the motion of Professor Chilton, to recommend the Senate to instituto a diploma in forestry. . On Professor Sommerville's motion, it was decided that in tho lI.A. and SI.Sc, degrees, Honours bo not awarded if the degrees are obtained more than six years after matriculation. Professor ltankine Brown moved that University teachers l bß invited to cooperate with tho external examiner in the examination of his students, Tint that the University teacher be not paid for so doing. The motion was lost. The Chnstclmrch committee submitted a report on tho method of conducting examinations for degrees, in whioli it was proposed tlmt the papers of all grades should bo marked by tho professor or teacher in New Zealand and tho provisional pass, fail, and Honours awarded; these marks supplemented where necessary by information as to a student's year's work and forwarded with tho papers to the English examiner, whoso decision in all cases should be final.

The paragraphs in the report were considered seriatim, but tho proposals were rejected. The board further considered the report of the teachers of law, and the tallowing recommendation of tho teachers was adopted:—"That a candidate be not allowed to take any two subjects for a section of tho LL.B. degree as in the new courses for the B.A. and B.Sc. degree, but that candidates who p'aes in any two of the following subjects bo credited therewith, viz., English, Latin, Mental arid Moral Philosophy, Eoman I,dw, Contracts, Property I, Property 11, and Jurisprudence, if it ceases to be a subject, for the 8.A.; in other respects the present regulation should remain in force." A resolution was passed that a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon was no longer reciuired of candidates taking English, and that the present English paper A shonld be replaced by a paper containing the question? on tho additional "books to be proscribed. On the motion of Professor Esrerton, it was rosolved that candidates who en< tered under the <vd Statute should be allowed to complete thair courses under tho conditions conhvned therein, provided tliev do so not later than the year ■j<)2,T.' This resolution also applies to candidates sitting during the present 3 The Christcliurch committee of tho Senate submitted propolis providing for a more suitable and elastic syllabus for th" Diploma in Journalism. It was decided to recommend that every candidate should be required to puss' in Practical .Tonmilism, English T.'terature, and General History, and that three other subjects should V; chosen from the following lint:—Economics, Heoeraphv, History of Political Tdeas, Constitutional History, Latin, Philosophy, one modern foreign language, S'v't : stical method, and one science. The board will continue its sittings today.