FEWER STUDENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 438, 21 August 1928, Page 16

FEWER STUDENTS

DECREASE AT AUCKLAND VARSITY LAW VACANCIES SCARCE According to the half-yearly reports to the council of the Auckland University yesterday, the students’ roll shows an unexpected decrease of about 40. Of these, Training College students have decreased by 30. Apart from this, there are fewer law students, the reason given being that there is a lack of vacancies in legal offices. The sciences, except that geology has shown a drop, are holding their own. The school of engineering continues to gain steadily, and there is a gradual but smaller gain in architecture, forestry, and music. None of the special schools, in fact, shows any tendency to decrease. All are increasing. Commenting on the grants for these schools, the registrar, Mr. O’Shea, remarked that the college did not now receive the £3OO so generously raised among architects and business men for the school of architecture. With this, also, the subsidy, £ for £, had disappeared. This loss of £ 600 had left the school of architecture somewhat in the air. It was hoped that this year the Government would bring the special schools a little nearer into line with the colleges in the South. With the exception of the forestry school, no special school in Auckland receives a grant, and in the South no special school is without one.