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Kōrero: Tertiary education

Student life: lectures

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Student life: lectures

Students sitting in a tiered lecture theatre, paying varying degrees of attention to a lecturer, is one of the most recognisable images of university life. Here, first-year chemistry students are attending a lecture by W. E. Dasent at Victoria University College, probably in the 1950s.

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J. C. Beaglehole Room, Victoria University of Wellington Library

by M. D. King

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Kerryn Pollock, Tertiary education – Universities before 1990, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/34415/student-life-lectures (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 29 May 2012.