Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion At Victoria University College, Wellington, N. Z. Vol. 24, No. 4. 1961

Overseas Student News

Overseas Student News

An international student work camp is being held in Concepcion, Chile, from March 15 to April 15. It is being sponsored jointly by the Chilean national student union and the international student organisation C.O.S.E.C. Each national student union may send two students to aid in the work.

London-Congo

A student committee for aid to the Congo has been established in London. Its aim is to raise £30.000 to despatch food and medicine to the Congo.

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The Soviet

More than one million Soviet students will work through correspondence and night schools during this academic year. This has been made necessary by 1958 education legislation, which compelled students to spend much of their time in industry. This will mean that fewer Soviet students than previously enter university.

Yugoslavia

New legislation in Yugoslavia divorces entirely institutions of higher learning from state control. Universities and similar bodies will be financially Independent of the state.

Morocco

The Second Congress of North African Students was held in December in Rabat, Morocco. Student unions from Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria were represented, and officials of the French national student union were present. The Congress expressed its determination to build a "strong and unified" Arab West and condemned the French Community of formally independent ex-colonies as an "expression of neo-colonialism."

Algeria

The Day of Solidarity with Algerian students, called by the International Student Conference for November 1, 1960, was highly successful. Over 37 national student unions played an active part, though there is no news of any New Zealand participation.

—O.G.

Poland

Students in Poland are complaining about bad teaching In the universities. They claim too many professors spend most of their time on research.

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