§ 10. Dr. Kingasked the Minister of Education whether he will recommend to the Hives Committee that the new quali- 672 fication in technology shall be a degree and not a diploma.
§ Sir D. EcclesNo. The power to confer a degree has become the distinguishing mark of a university.
§ Dr. KingWill the Minister convey to his learned advisers, who would object if their own professional qualifications were called Dip.Arts., Dip. Sc., M. Dip. and Dip. D., that the granting of degrees in technology would be good not only for euphony but also for parity of esteem in the battle that he, like all of us, hopes to wage for advanced technical education in the immediate future?
§ Sir D. EcclesI think that we all desire to get parity but that is not quite the same thing as saying that we shall get an exact equality in names.