UNIVERSITY SENATE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 297, 25 January 1910, Page 5

UNIVERSITY SENATE.

RAISING THE MATRICULATION STANDARD. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. Tlie University Senate to-day considered the following report of the R--ccsts Committee:—"The committee is of opinion that the standard of matriculation is too low and should be. raised so that the whole examination should represent a reasonable result of four years' triuiirr.g in secondary schools, and ' examiners be so instructed. The committee recommends that • compulsory subjects tor entrance to the examination. be as follows: (1) English (t.vo papers), including elementary questions, history and geography; (2) mathematics (two papers), including arithmetic, Algebra and elements of geometry; (3) Latin, Greek, French or German (one paper); (4) one of the following branches of science (one paper), mechanics, heat and light, electricity and magnetism, chemistry, ".oology, botany, agriculture; and, in addition, every candidate shall pass one subject selected from the subjects mentioned in the, existing statute not already taken by j the candidate out shall ?>ot offer him- I self for examination, for more than two such subjects." 1 Tmc first olau<=e was adopted by 14 to 4. The other portions of the report will be dealt with to-morrow. On the motion nf Dr. Scott, it was decided that students of medicine shall, before presentin-j' themselves for final exammat'on.^aUend a short course of demon'=tvn!ion= In elementary stoimlologv "auSTTmt the number of midwifery cases students are required to attend before graduating lie increased from six to twelve.