Redrupp Reports

One of the most interesting and valuable discussions was held on Student Faculty organisation. Redrupp, the Australian delegate to the Council meeting of I.U.S. in Prague, gave a comprehensive report on these organisations in Europe. There, organisation on a Faculty or Department basis Is very strong. Questions they deal with cover the range of the subject, the books used, teaching methods, e.g., seminars and tutorials, library facilities, student-staff relationships, the representation of students on the Faculty Board or similar controlling body, and so forth. Criticism of a lecturer by these student bodies carries serious weight. He mentioned that a large party of medical students were visiting five European capitals studying social medicine, a tour organised by a Student Faculty Commission.

In answering the question: "How can (say) the Arts course be improved?" the difficulty is that no student has detailed knowledge of the other N.Z. and Australian Universities. This could be overcome in two ways., Firstly, by a thorough survey of each faculty in all Universities by means of a questionnaire, and secondly, by holding meetings of students of the same faculty from the different Universities. Attempts have been made before to carry out the former, but It was decided to institute a new survey in the light of the experience gamed from the previous attempts and from Red-rupp's European visit. After the Session the meeting split up and separate meetings were held by all the members present from each Faculty. These meetings were par-ticularly valuable and brought down excellent reports which we went through at a later session.