HIGHER EDUCATION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 295, 8 December 1908, Page 2

HIGHER EDUCATION

VALUABLE SUGG ESTIONS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, List Night. At the annual .meeting of Victoria University District Court of Convocation this evening it was resolved that the Senate take into consideration the advisability of establishing the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Xew Zealand, or, m the Alternative, to amend the syllabus for the doctorate in literature | to include mental science; that the present separate examinations for matriculation and junior scholarships be abolished and one examination of intermediate dilliculty submitted for both, and tlie 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 I matriculated students mav be ipi-! ! - , | .' I to benefit at once by Uuiversit;. ' ■ | tion. 'and that, the' minimum V

triculation lie raised to 17 \- ~ . that the Senate consider the ijdvisa.liility of devising some scheme wlierehy the holders of junior scholarships anil those passing the junior scholarship examination with <rc<!it may lie enalileil In proceed ut once to more advanced work thiin other students.

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