Part I.

(We are planning two articles giving a brief survey of the activities of the Summer School for Asian Students held at Victoria between January 18 and February 19 this year. In this article Doug Waite outlines the position of the Asian student, as he sees it, at Victoria.)

We all know that a Colombo Plan student is an Asian student living in New Zealand. He receives a certain amount of money and is required to do some sort of study. Newspapers contain headlines like 'Outstanding Benefits of the Colombo Plan Scheme', 'A Further Link in the East-West Relations' and so on. But if we forget all this for a moment, drop the tag 'Colombo Plan Student' and inquire into the attitudes and experience of an Asian student arriving in this country, then self-satisfaction disappears and a certain uneasiness develops.

What factors affect the Asian in his New Zealand environment?

A study group under tutor. Mr J. Erdos.