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case a wage on which the student can live with reasonable
comfort is being paid. Messrs. Crossley Bros. Ltd.,
of Openshaw, Manchester, have since offered to take two
of our engineering graduates and the Managing Director
of Messrs. Dorman Long & Associates (China) Ltd., has
asked for twelve graduates to be placed annually as
apprentices in the works of Messrs. Dorman Long & Co.,
and the associated firms in England.
14. This changed attitude on the part of British
engineering firms will remove both the difficulties to
which I have referred above, for on their retum, the
successful students will be employed by the firms in
China.
15.
This development has already caused a much
larger number of students to apply for admission to the
University's Faculty of Engineering which now contains
This increase in numbers is bringing
102 students.
with it new and urgent problems.
Our machine shops
are old and dangerously overcrowded and new shops are
urgently needed. But if our engineering graduates
are successful as apprentices with first-class British
firms, there seems to be no reason why the Faculty of
Engineering should not develop and make a really useful
contribution to the development of China.
This
presumes that some day China will be rescued from
anarchy this is a condition precedent to the ultimate
success of this University as a whole.
16.
I agree with the Sub-Committee of the Senate
in thinking that the University has no special call at
this juncture to fomulate any new policy or any marked
departure from its present methods and arrangements.
I
also
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