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Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University Wellington. Vol. 23. No. 1. 1960

Summer School

Summer School

Here is a little background to the activities of the Summer School for Asian students. The note comes straight from "Korero Motu," the school's official organ.

[Note the round-about English—no doubt written specially for those overseas students not versed to any extent in the peculiarities of our tongue.]

"Nine months ago the first suggestion of having a course in practical English was thought of by the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association and since 9 April thanks to the work of the Department of English at Victoria University and the staff of External Aid Division, Department of External Affairs, the project has come into existence.

"Students' Association has been worried for a number of years about the problems confronting our overseas students and although attempts at schemes of a smaller size have been tried, nothing nearing the benefits of the present scheme have been put into effect.

"Dr del Re, in conjunction with other members of the Students' Association, International Affairs Committee have discussed and developed a workable scheme which in June was submitted to the Dean of the Arts Faculty of the University and the External Aid Division of the Department of External Affairs.

After further consultations between the committee and the External Aid Division the 'Go ahead' was given, finance, accommodation, tutors etc were arranged and the project was 'on'.

"This is a new scheme but we hope it will be the beginning of further and wider developments in the future."

[There will be a detailed account of Summer School activities in the next issue of "Salient".]