VICTORIA UNIVERSITY.
RESOLUTION OF CONVOCATION
[Press Association.]
WELLINGTON, Dec. 7
At tho annual meeting of the Victoria University District Court of Convocation this evening, it was resolved that the Senate take into consideration the advisability of establishing tlie degree of Doctor ol Philosophy in New - Zealand, or, in the alternative, to amend the syllabus for the Doctorate in Literature to include mental science ;_t|iat the present separate examinations for matriculation and junior scholarships be abolished, and one examination of intermediate difficulty submitted for both, and the junior scholarship be .awarded competitively on the basis of this examination ; that the Senate consider the advisability of raising the standard of the matriculation examination so "that all matriculation students may be qualified 1 to benefit at once by university education, and that the minimum •age for matriculation'by raised to 17 years; that the Senate consider the advisability of devising, some scheme whereby the holders of junior scholarships .and those passing the junior scholarship examination with credit may be enabled to proceed at onee to more advanced work than other students.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2368, 8 December 1908, Page 5
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