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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University of Wellington Students Assn. Volume 40, No. 16. July 11 1977

Cuts overdone and unacceptable

Cuts overdone and unacceptable

The cuts will be a real burden on students if they all go ahead. They are unsystematic and unweildy. First and second year students will continually be coming up against these restrictions which will block and lengthen their studies.

There has been no proper investigation of pedagogic (teaching) problems in the Law Faculty and how they relate to staff/student ratios. Decisions on terms and the socratic teaching method were taken with minimal consultation of students and still remain to be assessed adequately.

There has been no nationwide consideration of closing off open entry to prospective law students. Surely such a nationwide streaming operation will lead to 'higher' academic standards and this should be assessed for the following: a higher bursary for law students; an upgrading of the BA and B.Sc etc.

The substance of the Law Faculty's arguments need to be examined far more closely. At the moment they seem more worried about limiting numbers than anything else and are determined to ram it through without properly consulting students. Certainly they haven't started a campaign to increase staff numbers instead of reducing student numbers.

It seems law students will have to pressure 'their' department for the rights of future law students to enter Vic's Law Faculty without a fine mesh net of exclusion clauses.