Should Specialise

Professor Herd told more than 150 students the abolition of the University of New Zealand should give individual universities an opportunity to emphasise varying fields of study. "Each should develop its own special characteristics and specialities instead of everyone doing everything only moderately well," he said.

Professor Herd, head of the modern language department at Otago was speaking at the first formal session of the recent congress.

A student should want to go to a particular university because of its superior programme in his chosen field, not merely because it was in his home town or because his mother went there, he said "And if you don't want to do anything in particular, stay at home."