LORD NUFFIELD’S GIFT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 40, 15 January 1938, Page 9

LORD NUFFIELD’S GIFT.

APPRECIATION BY UNIVERSITY. Per Press Association. DUNEDIN. Jan. 14. Keen appreciation of the action of Viscount Nuffield in giving funds to provide lectureships in medicine at Oxford was expressed by the Senate of the University of New Zealand at its session to-day. The lectureships related to South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, the vice-chancellor, Professor T. A. Hunter, told the senate. He added that the substance of the conditions had appeared in the Press. It meant that in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand there would be one lectureship on the scientific side and one on the clinical side. The sum of £165,000 had been given by Viscount Nuffield for this purpose. There would be three demonstratorships and three clinical assistanceships. The emolument for an unmarried man or woman was £4OO per annum and for a married man £6OO per annum, together with travelling allowance. -iii. A resolution was adopted that the senate express its high appreciation of the action of Viscount Nuffield. EXAMINATION STANDARDS. An application from the Institute of Secretaries for the University to conduct its examinations was referred to the senate by the academic board, but it was not suggested that there should be any diploma offered. After the discussion of the matter in committee it was decided that the whole policy of the conduct of examinations for outside bodies should be reviewed and reconsidered by the executive committee of the senate. • A resolution that the examiners for the doctorate be instructed as at present to maintain the standard of degrees at a level equal to that of the British Universities, and to make no concession as to the standard because there is no Ph.D. degree in New Zealand, was unanimously adopted, and it was also agreed that no specific recommendations made by examiners as to alterations and additions to work submitted by a rejected candidate should be forwarded to the candidate. It was decided, on the recommendation of the academiq board, that there should be a uniform pass mark of 50 per cent, in all subjects of the 8.A.,' LL.B., B. Com., and similar degrees; at the present time 50 per cent is the pass mark in many of the papers—all professional examinations in law, accountancy, and medicine. The change, it was explained, would make the pass mark uniform without altering the actual standard. The academic board strongly urged the senate to consider the need for travelling scholarships in agriculture, commerce, and dentistry. This was aureed to. As the present system ot appointing examiners over two years before they are called upon to act has been found to lead to difficulties, it was decided that appointments should be made each year for the following year. _