UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 8

UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE

ACCREDITING NOT FAVOURED ALTERNATIVE PROPOSED (Special to Times) WELLINGTON, Friday An alternative to the proposed granting of university entrance by accrediting was advocated by Mr W. A. Armour, headmaster of Wellington College, in an interview. Mr Armour suggested that candidates for university entrance should take an approved post-primary course for a minimum of three years, and should be in the possession of a school certificate obtained, after a minimum of three years, on the results of external examinations conducted by the Education Department, together with the candidate's school record of work. Mr Armour also advocated the completion of a further year’s course, to an approved standard, after the awarding of the school certificate. If the system of Accrediting as adopted in Victoria and as suggested by the Senate of the University of New Zealand were introduced, Mr Armour said, it would necessitate a very elaborate cumulative record-card system which would have to be devised and operated by teachers in secondary schools. Teachers would have to de-

vote much more attention than at present to recorded statements of the progress of their pupils, and would have to conduct with much greater care than at present periodical examinations such as term examina-