Old corpse, new baby

Administering some quick doses of senatorial medicine the Senate made a slick change from undertaker, to midwife.

The corpse neither journalists nor Varsity wanted—the time-honoured Diploma in Journalism—was speedily interred in spite of a noteworthy rearguard tight by one-time Christchurch Star-Sun Commercial editor Donald Bain, and a new pharmacy course was brought into the NZU curriculum.

The pharmacists will find a niche in or near Otago's medical school and take at least a three-year course for a degree or diploma. They will be the cream of the pharmaceutical world, the others being trained at a technical institute yet to be established.

To the Senate committee on pharmacy education which had a heavy time considering the problem, the Education Department has suggested a technical institute which would train ordinary pharmacists as well as other technicians and technologists.

This is likely to be the procedure followed, but further discussions have yet to take place.

Education Director C. E. Beeby said such an Institute could be got under way "by transforming the present Hutt Valley Technical College into a National Technical Institute. This plan has so far been discussed at departmental level only.