EDUCATIONAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 180, 29 January 1912, Page 5

EDUCATIONAL.

* 2 % UNIVERSITY SENATE. * . '% By Telegraph—Press Association." vjj 1 Wellington, Last Night. At yesterday's sitting of the University Senate, Dr. Hughes moved, "That a 'fij candidate for the degree of Doctor Literature, or Doctor of Science, or Dr. f of Law®, be required to publish liis., <j thesis of dissertation befol c jt is accepted by the university, that the published 4$ thesis 'or dissertation be first iiubmittedto the teachers of the subject concerned 3j in affiliated colleges, and, except upon * fife the receipt of an unfavorable report the Senate, shall submit the work to examiner who is a specialist in, tHe' sub*i':ss ject of the thesis." • .The motion,, which was seco ntled and ■-<& supported -by Mr. G. Hogbpn, was earrfW: without dissent, and referred to the ; jfl statutes committee. , > ;■ The joint medical 'and finance committees, asked by the Senate to reconsider the rates of rpmimeriUinu for examina> f , fl tion, reported,that no change is at pre- Va Sent advisable. —The report was adopted, Fjirther consideration of the report oi jS the recess committee on engineering and 4 V architecture was given/ by the: Senate. ' J. R. Scott (Canterbury Coir ill lege), in moving the adoption <jf the re-* 'JM port, expressed his belief that this re-i'lg vised programme would prevent the establisfoment of inferior schools of en- ■tm gineering in other parts of the Dominion. This must inevitably result in the ing of the standard and influence not for the good'of the Canterbury school. ,There >iw was room for only one such institution. 'fWin New Zealand.—The motion was seeonded by Mr. G. Hogben. . The several clauses of the report were ' *5 taken seriatim and adopted. The report '■jra wasi referred to the statutes committee.* $8 A travelling scholarship was awarded to Thaddeus Julian. .