Just before [unclear: Easter] I saw something of the English University student at close quarters and heard much that may be of interest to his New Zealand contemporary, whose problems, it seemed to me, are much the same. It was the occasion of the Annual Congress of the National Union of Students (the body in this country corresponding to the N.Z.U.S.A. in New Zealand) and it was held at University College. Nottingham. There, amid ideal surroundings and under idyllie conditions, some 150 earnest minded young men and women met to consider and discuss a programme that can only be described as ponderous in its intellectual intensity. I should have thought it ambitious that we had as a preliminary to settle the chief needs and problems of the world today; but not so the burnished mind of the British undergraduate we took the "needs and problems" aspect in our stride and went on to consider the contribution to the solution of these problems which it would be reasonable to expect from the University educated man or woman, as compared with the man or woman whose formal education ceased at 14 or 16. Lastly, we enveloped ourselves in a discussion on curricula, teaching methods and examinations, seeking to decide whether these commonly despised aspects of a University are so designed as to develop a capacity to make any contribution at all to world problems.