HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN.
In referring to the question ot the higher education of women, in his speech at the opening of the Auckland Girls' Grammar School, on Thursday last, the Hon. George Fowlds, Minister for Education, said that he regretted that even now, after 50 or 60 years of agitation and progress in the higher education of women, universities in the Home Land still refused to grant women that measure of justice which fortunately we in New Zealand had been conferring upon them for a great many years. He referred particularly to the question of degrees. He thought that it was litile short of a scandal that in those ancient seats of learning the women who had worked for and earned the right to a degree shouH not have the right of receiving it at their hands. He hoped that before very long the women in the Old Land woqlJ get justice, and he had no doubt that it would be given to them once they got the franchise, which they had been agitating for, ana which he though they would soon receive. The Minister's remarks were recieved with applause.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3163, 14 April 1909, Page 4
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191HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3163, 14 April 1909, Page 4
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