Other formats

    Adobe Portable Document Format file (facsimile images)   TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

Salient. The Newspaper of Victoria University College. Vol. 19, No. 7. June 16, 1955

Practical Activities

Practical Activities

On the question of practical activities, said O'Brien, we gained much from the NUAUS conferences—travel and exchanges congress, orientation activities, are exhibitions, the textbook scheme—all had their main impetus from the enthusiasm that NZUSA delegates brought back with them.

Graduate employment in Indonesia was another aspect. If this develops, then we will have another of the practical schemes which it is desirable to put into practice.

When it came to a point, we discontinued the practice of sending an observer to NUAUS because it was costing us £00 a year and nothing new was being brought back. Applying this test of utility to the international field, we find that reports of NZUSA observers go back to 1945.

In the post-war period, NZUSA worried, "Are we getting anything out of this participation?" Endeavouring to found a practical scheme in the South-East Asian area, NZUSA found that IUS objected. This began the international disintegration of student co-operation.

COSEC was formed, and when this organisation overcame its teething troubles NZUSA sent observers from Europe. At this stage there were not many practical schemes in which we could participate.

It was felt in 1953 that COSEC needed a bit more time, it has now had that extra time, and the question must be faced, "What are we getting out of COSEC?" Their practical schemed will increase in time, and the revised attitude to WUS in the NZU could be attributed in no small measure to information and enthusiasm brought back from COSEC conference, 1054, by Messrs. O'Brien and Dalgety.

It was true that nothing of direct practical interest to NZUSA had yet been formulated by COSEC COSEC had recently been admittds to consultative status to UNESCO.

Mr. D. Dalgety, speaking after the adjournment, said that following the principal motion of Easter, 1953, giving priority of activity to the South-East Asian area, a committee was set up to consider the matter: this committee produced the Brewster report of 1954.