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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume. 34, Number 12. June 16, 1971

Will the new system lead to disjointed meaningless degrees?

Will the new system lead to disjointed meaningless degrees?

The easiest retort to this question is that the present degrees are disjointed and meaningless. If anything, the new structure may lead to more specialised degrees - it certainly offers the possibility to the student.

Students will still be required to fulfil a major subject requirement, so that a certain number of credits must be grouped around a single subject.

A certain amount of advanced work must be passed (48 credits from courses numbered 201-339). The system of prerequisites and co-requisites will minimize the diversity of courses which may be grouped into a degree.

This article is intended to be no more than a generally explanatory review of the proposed set of regulations. The writer has been involved with the drafting of the regulations but the views in the article are in no sense official. The regulations will be widely publicized when they are finally approved, and in the meantime a set of the draft regulations will be available in the Studass Office.

So far the regulations have only been approved at the Arts Faculty level. They will be presented to the next meeting of the Professorial Board for its approval on June 17th.

Assuming that Board approved the regulations, they will be next considered by the University Council (meeting 28th June). Students are represented on both Board and Council and student representatives would be happy to hear suggestions and complaints from students before these meetings.

The Curriculum committee of the University Grants Committee will be required to finally approve the new scheme.

The crucial step has probably been taken already however, and the new B.A. is likely to be introduced in 1972.