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Special care will be given to teaching students the functioning of different parts of the chassis; the location of faults; and the making of rapid, accurate, and lasting repairs.
At the same time care will be taken to ensure that the student on completing his course will be able to take up any appointment in the group of industries classi- fied as Light Engineering."
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The keeping of time sheets, stores, etc., will fit the youth for a position of responsibility in due course.
The financial reward for proficiency would appear to be about $40 per month upwards.
(c) Part Time (Lecture) Courses. These courses are intended for youths who are serving an apprenticeship with reliable firms by day, and whose need lies rather in instruction in the underlying principles of their respective trades than in addi- tional practice at these trades.
Certain of the Technical Institute classes will be included under these courses. For example, when complete, the Trade School will provide adequate housing, and, more important, adequate equipment for instruction in Electrical Engineering, Building Construction, etc.
Provision will be made for boys who have completed the Junior course, and who are serving apprenticeships with the Dock Companies, etc., to continue their training without interruption at these courses. The standard aimed at in this in- stance would be the Ordinary National Certificate of the Board of Education, England, a channel thus being prepared whereby lack of financial means would not prevent a good boy from qualifying to go to sea.
These courses would, in the main, be held as evening classes but it is expected that certain Dockyard apprentices will be released two half days per week to con- tinue their education.
The initial courses under this heading will be:-
Building Construction.
Electrical Engineering.
Mechanical Engineering.
(d) Part Time (Trade) Courses.-These courses are proposed as a means of giving the apprentice in the small Chinese workshops, especially in the Engineering, Building, and allied Trades, the opportunity of acquiring a higher degree of manual skill at his trade, and at the same time of learning to read an engineer's or architect's drawing. Entry would be strictly confined to bona-fide apprentices.
It is unlikely that every course could be run each year, but the more popular- courses could be selected from :-
Carpentry; Bricklaying and Masonry; Reinforced Concrete; Plumbing and Gas- fitting; Electrical Wiring; Fitting and Turning; Automobile Repair, etc.
(e) Minor Courses.-These would be full time day courses of comparatively short duration, say, six to twelve months. They would not be in constant opera- tion, but would be held from time to time as occasion demanded. Students of these courses could probably be combined with classes in the Senior Courses for certain subjects. It is intended that these courses should reach a higher standard than the Part Time Courses, and would include a varying proportion of lecture to shop. work.
It is proposed that a special effort be made to induce small employers to send their apprentices for a "Minor Course" in Trade work as part of their appren- ticeship; by this means, the standard of skill would undoubtedly be greatly raised.