MEDICAL SCHOOL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26640, 10 December 1947, Page 6

MEDICAL SCHOOL

SECOND-YEAR CLASSES POSITION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS The admission of graduate students to second-year classes at the Otago Medical School after 1949 was clarified in a report submitted by a special committee to the University Council at its monthly meeting yesterday. The council approved of a recommendation from the committee that in 1950 and succeeding years graduate preference be granted only to graduates who held the degrees of B.A. or B. Sc. and who would .be not more than 24 years of age on the last day of December of the year of application, but that at the discretion of the council applications be accepted from students of more than 24 years of age whose university career had been seriously affected by war service. The committee reported that it had also considered a letter from the liason officer asking for a decision as to the possibility of re-admission in a future year of a student who had failed in the second year and had not been recomn\ended for re-admission in the year immediately succeeding. The committee recommended to the council to reply that such a student was not necessarily excluded for all time, but an application in a future year would be considered .according to the merits of the case. This recommendation was adopted.