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(a.) A high standard of entrance qualification, involving the completion of a full course of secondary education. (b.) One year's course of professional training. (c.) An extension of the course to two, three, or four years in the case of students specially selected and approved. As a rule, such students should have an entrance qualification equivalent to the leaving certificate with honours standard. 3.) Professional training in the principles and practice of teaching should not be taken by students concurrently with study for degrees, except in so far as it is involved in " practice teaching " during vacations. (4.) A course of training for secondary teachers should be provided at one of the University colleges. This should involve a proper staffing and equipment both of the college department and of a special secondary school to be used as a " practice school." The course of professional training should be taken as a post-graduate course. (5.) Careful supervision should be exercised to ensure that student teachers taking university courses select subjects likely to be of direct use to them as teachers in a secondary school. (6.) Vacation courses should be held at suitable intervals at University colleges by the University colleges and the Education Department in co-operation. TX. University Education in Agriculture. (1.) Two University Schools of Agriculture in the North Island should not be continued, but one school of full University standard should be established, and adequate provision for its development on sound lines should be made. (2.) The School of Agriculture thus established should provide courses for degrees in Agriculture, allowing opportunity for specialization in the main branches of rural industry. It should also provide diploma courses for young farmers. (3.) The university course in agriculture now provided at Lincoln College should be recast and improved, or, failing this, should be discontinued. In that event the work at Lincoln College should be confined to diploma courses for young farmers. (4.) The proposed University School of Agriculture should provide courses in Home Economics and Rural Economics (including the lighter farm industries) for farmers' wives and daughters. (5.) A department for training rural teachers should also be developed in this school. X. Legal Education. (I.) There should be a Council of Legal Education representative of the Judges, the members of the legal profession, and the University. It should be given the powers now vested in the Judges under the Law Practitioners Act. (2.) The Course now prescribed for solicitors should be strengthened, — (a.) By requiring an Entrance Examination at the standard of the Junior University Scholarship Examination, instead of, as now, the Matriculation Examination : (b.) By bringing the number and standard of the law professional subjects into line with the requirements in New South Wales and Victoria : (c.) By providing for a definite period of practical training in a law office. (d.) By abolishing the practice of allowing the entrance qualification to be taken after passing in the professional subjects : (e.) By insisting that part-time students shall take only as many subjects as can be profitably studied in the time which they can devote to them. (3.) The course now prescribed for barristers should be strengthened,— (a.) By requiring that all barristers shall take the subjects of general education now taken for the LL.B. degree —viz., Latin and English or Philosophy: (b.) By bringing the number and standard of the law professional subjects into line with the requirements for barristers in New South Wales and Victoria :

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