The measures are designed to combat two situations which have concerned University authorities in New Zealand for some time; the critical shortage of University buildings, and the unsatisfactory standard of University Entrance requirements.

The would-be University student will, under the new scheme, have to pass School Certificate in subjects prescribed by the college. He must not only obtain University Entrance but must have studied prescribed subjects (or two years in the upper sixth.

"Provisional Admission"

Then he is granted only "provisional admission, which preferential admission may nullify.

"All [unclear: this] says the New Zealand Herald editorially, "amounts to a highly selective system which takes control of the academic pupil's destinies almost as soon as he enters secondary school and maintains it right up to the beginning of his university career. . . . However, it is contrary to present educational policy to allow a university college to impose apparently rigid requirements upon academic courses in secondary schools Within its district. . . .

Within the Law

"The Auckland University College Council believes that it has full legal right to carry out its plan without obtaining permission from the Senate or anyone else. That may be so, but it would probably be an easy matter for the Government to abolish the light by a few lines of legislation, or perhaps by some easier means. .

"In the long run the college will no doubt have to submit to the will of the higher authorities or reach some agreement with them. But it has taken a bold step and merits the reward of courage and originality."