UNIVERSITY REFORM NEEDED

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 203, 6 December 1910, Page 5

UNIVERSITY REFORM NEEDED

ROYAL COMMISSION SUGGESTED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The Court of Convocation of the Middle University District considered the question of university reform tonight. A sub-committee reported, after discussion with representatives of the professorial l board of Victoria, College:— (1) That the College Governors do not make adequate provision for university studies or research; (2) that facilities for modern university teaching are not equal to the maximum required for an efficient university; (3) that details of curricula for degrees, and of syllabus for individual subjects are technical matters, and therefore the university teachers should ex-officio take a definite and regular part in all this portion of academic legislation; (4) that the external examination system is (a) educationally unsound, as it unduly exalts examination, and divorces it from teaching; (b) decreases the sense of respontsibility of making a complete and ade? quate provision for teaching; (5) that a Royal Commission should be appointed to take evidence, both within and without New Zealand, and to recommend such changes as will give the Dominion a modern and efficient university system. The report was adopted.