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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 9. 1962.

Tutorials

Tutorials

More important, is not the meeting of minds so essential in the humanities, much more easily accomplished by the tutorial system? Smaller tutorials could be run on a much more personal basis. More work could be presented by the tutor so that tutor and undergraduate are working together.

In short, the level of the don could be raised to the position it holds in overseas universities.

It encourages much more discrimination in the student's approach to his studies. He is less likely to digest lectures like old water-biscuits and regurgitate them wholesale to his tutors. It might possibly give the tutor some fresher outlooks as he is exposed to the ideas of those coming on.

The objections are obvious. Money, money and money. Money for staff to increase the staff/student ratio; money for hostel accommodations so that students can communicate on this personal basis more easily; money for more postgraduate facilities. All that is of course in the lap of the government. This excuses, but does not answer the assertion that the system could and should be improved.

These comments are an attempt to clarify a sincerely-held position. Newspapers ore often accused of making cheap propaganda. But in an issue which is so vital to the interests of both staff and students, sensationalism and irresponsible comment must have no part.