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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 1. 1966.
News briefs
News briefs
ionesco trip fails
Internationally Famous playwright Eugene Ionesco was to have attended NZUSA's Curious Cove congress. Finance was arranged through the Rothmans organisation and the Arts Council. He was to have assisted dramatic groups in several centres as well as attending the congress. However, illness forced the cancellation of his trip.
student shortage!
The University Of Tasmania is advertising for students. In February its officials were interviewing students in Victoria. It will assist students to obtain accommodation, and will absorb some of the students excluded from Victoria's Melbourne and Monash universities by filled quotas. Since the university moved to a new site, it has had room for expected enrolments in almost all faculties.
'words' delayed
Publication Of The Second Issue of the new literary periodical "Words" has been delayed. The Wai-Te-Ata press, which prints the magazine, has been closed down during the absence of its controller, Professor D. McKenzie, on sabbatical leave. It is expected that the second issue will be published about May-June. 1966.
student surplus!
Two New South Wales state agricultural colleges have refused enrolment this year to 480 students. This is 80 per cent of the number of applicants. The number of students could not be increased because no more facilities were available.
overseas studies
230 New Zealand Students studied at Australian universities in 1965. The total number of overseas students was 6767, of whom over half were Malaysians. New Zealanders ranked ahead in numbers of all countries except Malaysia. Republic of China-Hong Kong (1382) and Indonesia (261).
target broken
Canterbury University's Appeal to build three church halls of residence at the Ilam site broke its £100,000 target shortly before Christmas with a gift of £10,000 from Sir Arthur Sims. Now of London, Sir Arthur is a University of Canterbury graduate.
£½m for vet school
£436,320 Will Be Spent on the first stage of the veterinary science buildings at Massey University. It will be the clinical science block, housing the animal clinic and the animal hospital. Drawings are being prepared for an eight-storey second stage containing laboratories and staff studies.