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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 2. 1966.

Control lost

Control lost

Secondly, an earlier piece of legislation brought in by Mr. Pizzey (December, 1964) deprived the university of control over its entrance standards and that piece of legislation was introduced and passed without the university being so much as informed of what was being done.

Thirdly, Mr. Pizzey has more than once recently made statements, the only interpretation of which would seem to be that he is keen to see a lowering of the pass degree standard in Queensland.

He has, for example, complained at the "over-training of graduates," and looked forward to what he calls "bread and butler" pass decrees, when the real need is to raise the standards, not to lower them.

Fourthly. Mr. Pizzey has expressed his confidence in the members of the university community in such utterances as the following:—

"It was felt that any increases in the university Senate membership should be given to people who can take a detached objective view. That is why it was important that those members be not members of the university staff association."— (Mr. Pizzey, Hansard 1965, p.1860).