NEW DIPLOMA COURSE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1054, 19 August 1930, Page 8

NEW DIPLOMA COURSE

TRAINING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATORS SUGGESTION AT AUCKLAND The desirability of establishing a Diploma in Public Administration o' the Auckland University College was urged on the College Council yesterday in a letter received from Dr. H. Belshaw, Professor of Economics and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce. "After discussing the question with a number of senior local body officials. I have come to the conclusion that the time is now opportune, and I desire to recommend to the College Council that such a diploma be instituted,” said the letter. "The proposal has not yet been discussed by the Professorial Board and. pending such discussion, all that I desire is that the principle be endorsed by the College Council. Detailed recommendation will be forwarded at a later stage “It is my intention to recommend that the course be offered in place of the municipal lectures at present being given. In addition, it is hoped to establish a branch of the Institute of Public Administration, which will serve much the same purpose as tbe municipal lectures. "The diploma course is intended primarily to meet the requirements of lo\; body officials, but it is hoped that it will appeal also to civil servants.

In a general outline of the course proposed. Professor Belshaw stated that provision of such a course had been an important development in university education in most Englishspeaking countries. In New Zealan no such provision had been made, an the University Colleges offered no special facilities for the training »• civil servants or local body In view of the important part wtaen public servants played In the 0 the community, it was scarcely J irc sary to advance arguments in favou. of the view that the professorial qualifications of administrators should include a University training i® 811 jects which had a bearing on the ar. of public administration. It was hoped that eventually course might be recognised as a professional qualification tor loca and' civil officials. It had been pre pared after consultation with a. numb? of the senior officials of local a ties in and around Auckland. g The subjects would be of tne standard as for the degree of “Aof 8.C0m., but would be granted the term examination. the The question was referred to tn Education Committee and the 1 i sorial Board. At the same timejj was resolved to express satirfacu at the success of the munic pa eminent lectures already e> year.