STUDENTS GALLED UP

Evening Star, Issue 23382, 27 September 1939, Page 8

STUDENTS GALLED UP

EXAMINATION POSITION CLARIFIED SPECIAL LEGISLATION TO MEET EMERGENCY Special legislation' providing concessions for university students whose services have been accepted for war duty will shortly be brought before Parliament, while special facilities are to be extended to such trainees to obtain leave, wherever possible, to sit degree examinations in November. Full details of the provisions will be made public as soon as the legislation has been approved. “ Proposed legislation in regard to concessions for students called up for naval, military, air, or other special war service has been approved by the executive of the New Zealand University Senate,” said Mr W. J. Morrell, Chancellor of the University of Otago, this morning. “ The Navy, Army, and Air Departments have agreed to extend facilities to students already in camp to obtain, wherever possible, leave to take examinations.” On behalf of those students affected, the Senate recently approached the Government on the matter, and it was confidently expected that some concession would be granted. “ That some such facilities would be made was generally expected,” said Professor A. It. Andrew, chairman of the Professorial Board and dean of the mining faculty. “If students had been called up very much earlier it would probably have been a case of having passes credited to them.” Referring to examination candidates obtaining special leave from camp. Professor Andrew agreed that some allowance would havj to be made in markings in view of tho loss of a month’s preparation.