Educational Standard Of
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Fiji Students
ACCORDING to Professor J. Ruther ford, chairman of the Professorial Board of the Auckland (NZ), Uni versity College, the educational standard of would-be University students from Fiji, who sit in the Colony for NZ University examinations, is much below the standard required. Many are so ill-equipped and badly trained for the examinations that they should not, he said, be permitted to sit for them.
Professor Rutherford is of the opinion that there should be better liaison between the educational authorities of the two countries; this would go far to wards removing some of the troubles. In the meantime the Professorial Board has been asked to report on the whole question of students from Fiji.
THE 1945 Morris Hedstrom University Scholarship winner, Ravuama Vani vula, has passed in four subjects for his Bachelor of Arts degree this year -he has now gained six of the nine units required to complete the degree course next year. Other students from Fiji who have had partial passes in University de gree subjects are: Tomasi Naivalurua, Semesa Sikivou, Messrs. Gopalan. E.
Grant, R. Prasad, D. S. P. Sharma, S. M.
Koya, D. Singh, M. Usuff, J. Raihman, V.
Sundram, K, Jamnadas and A. Latee.