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Salient

Free Education?

Free Education?

1. That part-time study is not the most satisfactory way of acquiring a university education. A "Salient" editorial of 25/9/46, boasted that "New Zealand is the only British country in which university education has become literally free." But the other side of the coin shows the tremendous sacrifice that has to be made by 1573 students at this college, in order to reach the dizzy heights of a B.A. or a B.Sc. Crowded hours of inglorious swot, last minute pressures, the Damocles' sword of the hot—that is a high price to pay for something that is free. If we want to inflate our academic-standard, "Salient" has already suggested a course of action in the N.Z.U.S.A.S.L.F. Bursary campaign.

2. Meanwhile, it seems that part-timers, like the poor, we have always with us. It does not behove those who have undoubtedly more time to devote to both study and college "politics." to treat the part-timer with a certain tolerant contempt. For "We are many—you are few." Such an overwhelming majority of students must necessarily set the standard and the college can be said to exist for them. But can a qualified staff with the preparation necessary for leading the community study of an old-world university, be allowed to become a machinery for the distribution of notes? And a painful five years become the norm for the acquisition of a meagre baccalaureata?

—C.B.