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can ever hope to proceed to Great Britain for superior
post-graduate apprenticeship courses. For the general
problem of obtaining practical experience for our engineers
we must look to such facilities as are available in the
Far East as a whole, and Hong Kong in particular,
make the best of them.
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and
Amplifying what is implied in certain sections of
the Government Report, Paragraph 15 of the Vice Chancellor's
covering note (23.1.32), says: "Much more is expected of
this University in the matter of responsibility for its
students' futures than would ever be expected of a Univer-
sity in Britain."
To this we can assent in a general way, but we are
unable to admit that the University can be saddled with
any technical responsibility for the extent or the charac-
ter of the practical experience that may be available
locally for our engineering graduates or undergraduates.
Responsibility must go hand in hand with authority. But
manifestly the University can never have any control what-
ever over the doings of local engineering firms.
We much admire the suggestion of G.R. Para. 39 that
local engineering firms might admit our mechanical gra-
duates to their works for systematic post-graduate appren-
ticeship training, and pay them during the requisite
period of, say, two years, a living wage of, say, $150
a month.
But we are not at all hopeful that any local firm
will be prepared to adopt a scheme so very up-to-date.
We however commend to the consideration of the Senate
and Council, whenever funds may become available, the
establishment of special "Post-graduate Apprenticeship
Scholarships," of substantial value, to be awarded on the
results of our Final Engineering Examinations.