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(6.) The Public Service should set an example to other employers by extending the practice of granting facilities to selected officers to attend university classes. (2.) Before part-time students are enrolled they should be required to show sufficient cause why they cannot devote their whole time to university work. (3.) The College Faculty concerned should determine how many subjects each part-time student shall be allowed to take, and each part-time student should be allowed to present for examination only such subjects as may have been so determined by the Faculty. (4.) The colleges should endeavour to devise schemes for the employment of students during the long summer vacations in order that they may be able to maintain themselves wholly or partially during terms. IV. Exempted Students. Applicants desiring registration as exempted students should be required to show good cause why they cannot attend university courses. The appropriate Faculty should determine how many subjects of a course an exempted student is to be allowed to take. The University colleges should undertake to send to exempted students, from time to time, help and guidance in their work —e.g., an indication of the most appropriate course of reading ; necessary help in the form of notes and suggestions, and such tutorial assistance as may be given to internal students. V. The Teaching Staff. (1.) All professorial appointments should require the approval of the University Council. (2.) Method of filling vacancies. (See recommendation under ] above.) (3.) The appointment of professors might be in the first instance for five years, and after that period there should be a, permanent tenure conditional upon " good behaviour." (4.) Actuarial inquiry should be made as to the alleged unfair incidence of the superannuation scheme. (5.) There should be a definite classification of the sub-professorial staff into, e.g., senior lecturers, lecturers, junior lecturers, demonstrators, tutorial assistants. A suitable maximum and minimum salary should attach to each classification. (6.) A system of " tutorials " to small groups of students should supplement the teaching in those subjects in which at present only lectures are given. Whereever necessary, tutorial assistants should be provided. (7.) Professors should be given facilities, at suitable intervals, for visiting other countries in order to make themselves acquainted with recent developments in their subjects and in university work generally. VI. The University in relation to Secondary Education. (I.) The present Matriculation Examination should be abolished, and two public examinations named the " Intermediate Examination " and the " School Leaving Examination " should be substituted therefor. The Intermediate Examination should be of a standard suited to pupils of sixteen years of age who have been in attendance at a secondary school. The School Leaving Examination should be of a standard suited to pupils of eighteen years of age who have completed a full secondary-school course. (2.) The qualification for matriculation should be gained by passing in a definite, number of subjects in each of the above examinations, including such compulsory subjects as the University may consider necessary. (3.) The methods adopted by the Scottish Education Department for conducting the Intermediate and School Leaving Examinations for Scottish secondary schools should be, so far as practicable, adopted in New Zealand. This includes inspection of certain subjects of the curriculum, not to be examined by a written test, and consideration, by the Examiner, of the school record of the candidate as certified bv the Principal of the school from which he is presented.