UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 December 1908, Page 5

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS.

PROPOSED CHANGES,

(Per Press Association.)

WELLINGTON, December 7. At the annual meeting of the Vicr toria- University District Court of Convocation this evening it Mas resolved that the Senate take into consideration the advisability of establishing the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in New Zealand, or in the alternative to amend tho syllabus for the Doctorate in Literature, to include mental science; that the present separate examinations for matriculation and junior scholarships be abolished, and one examination of intermediate difficulty submitted for both, and the junior scholarship be awarded competitively on tho -basis of this examination ; that the. Senate consider the advisability of raising the standard of the .matriculation.examination, so that all matriculated students may be qualified to benefit at once by University education, and that tile minimum age for matriculation be raised to 17 years; that the Senate consider the advisability of devising some scheme whereby tho' holders of junior scholarships and those passing the junior scholarship examination with credit may be enabled to proceed at once to more advanced work than other students

DUNEDIN, December 7. ■ At a meeting of the University •Ooun-"' cil to-day Dr. P. Marshall was appointed Professor of Geology and Mineralogy. Tlio Council decided to recommend to the Senate that Maori be made an optional subject for the Matriculation examination.