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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria University, Wellington N.Z. Vol. 22, No. 10. September 14, 1959

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In many other countries the present ratio of one staff member to every 19 students would raise doubts as to the validity of the claim to be a university.

Unfortunately the ratio threatens to get worse as student numbers grow and staff numbers limp behind. The sufferers will be you.

The university teachers will leave for greener pastures; they will grow old, retire or die. You, in your successive generations, will remain.

The teachers who will be prepared to work here on low wages may in some cases have special reasons, but most will simply be unable to qualify as university teachers outside New Zealand.

Unfortunately for you the universities, and the qualifications you get from them, will be judged by the quality of their staffs.