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officers appointed from oversons will be men who have had at least three or four years good experience before they are selected; that schoolmasters and schoolmistresses will likewiso have had teaching experience in a good school at home.
Future recruituent policy.
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But in an attempt to put into operation the policy outlined in White Paper Colonial No.197 in our view clearly necessitates the most careful planning by Government of the future system of recruitment. ance of the policy that people resident in the Colony should at the earliest possible dato man the public service implies a clear understanding of two further issues:-
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Appointments from overseas shall henceforth be in sone sonoo specialist. Men of special aptitudo may have to be appointed temporarily or permanently to undertake specific tacks, but such ointments are not likely to create resontment. Mon who have had specialised training that the Colony is not yet equipped to provide, - wiministrative officers or inspectors of works, for example, whose great value comes not from selfie training but by their having had an opportunity to grow up in a tradition of politics or craftsmanship which is yet to be established in the Colony are still needed. Mon of the professi al services, medical, on incoring, mentional or scientific, can specialise in the United Kingdom and their specialist knowledge will readily be recognised by the people of the Colony. Such men will accept the position that it is an important part of tauir function to train the men who are to sporcode them, as already has so widely happened in India. We have therefore not hesitated to provide for the continuance of overseas appoint- ments but always with the implicit proviso, that in every case men appointed can contribute some- thing which fowards the general policy of opening the public service to the people of the Colony.
If the people of the Colony are to man their own services, it is a matter of the first importance that they should be trained to do this with sufficient competence. A consider- ation of the extent and the limitation of facilities within the Colony for professional and technical training hardly comes within our terms of reforonce, but it is a matter that we wore compelled to discuss in our attempt to assess reasonable rates of pay. The University has trained doctors who have had good careers in the Colony, in Malaya and in China: it has trained engineers who have done well elsewhere than in the Public Works Department, which has not yot found one worthy of permanent employment. The Technical and Trade Schools are in process of development and a commencement only has been made with the adequate training of teachers. It appears to us that the time has come for Government to lay down explicitly the qualifications that shall be required in futuro