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When 80 firms woo a dozen young engineers the Opportunity Road for youth seems to be clearly signposted. But there's

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big snag.

ARE THE UNIVERSITIES

IN TUNE WITH THE AGE?

RHONA CHURCHILL concludes "My Son And 1."

London He werk, for instance, to one 'VE been checking up London college to

third-year engineer undergradu- the tee

on

Bome

of things the top men have bxon telling me. Is it true, for instance, that our universities are pumping out

the

address 12

"Would any of you come to Fords" ho

like t

asked.

"Well let you know

We've

hopefully.

got 70 other firms sendi

to wrong

prescrdalives to speak

kind of graduates for this tay and age?

said 'hu students

There you have it 30 Brit

engines. while

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The men who run DELT University Appointment students me up at the day of

Hoards, where graduntes go when job-hunting, produced these staggering figures for

me:

Ten the usanid auto Krities emvige aroundly tion our tin-

Mike Fords, wits the odds a mer 1 48 151 agonest ther being tikim in

TravelBig Beth 72 fm Hard

8:30 the I VESL Sir

Che tph Hinton for my first arter, I had the luck t Anel myself ting ppuste Me Joše Sully general

Ivanager

et

verses fighting for 3,980 good Engh & Eletric. Stafford, in the

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farchicted universities and Outpat ป 3,000 technogy

awals th Hattuates.

fo

1431

There are three jobs waiting every young physiert, dree every ehrinis!, three For

PXPEN Engineer A first-class engineer enn take his pick of 80

In

The demand fur scientists and engirwean I expected to doubler wilan tie next in years. Hut our unerrsifies still follow the old

"balarke FLI༥ER'[ vduentin Under this poltey they neeupt one ur's student for every

taking science. engmemung, metienne, and culture.

THEY

Special fund

ITNEY claim it in the only way in produce an educated nu- They will text a mary la a finer fellow if he rearin Plato in the omguzi then if he hobnobs mentally with Einste

The perks world

in the educational KO Lo The urte selence graduates, Very few graduates becoine hendimuslers, e most beads are more inter- ested in the arts subject taught In their schools, and give mɗte attention to their arts pupils.

This

that intelligent boys who would be invalu able to Industry as engineers often leave school with their heads full of Latin and Greek, and rota of what to do with their knowledge.

Ines

ut 15, anci the world that

15

Words of wisdom

4 b

latt 4. work are enn- ed by all le, ding; ungher» 1 Blain's best nur- mechadurafly minded YARAR: TO

640 is encrently Magning 700 apprenties, )

Mr Solly bubbled over with entination when he learned 1. tex, hot a Words of prae- Ucaal. d warh-vartl wisdom Tumbled from him.

Whatever J. b

he lakes 1473. s that A Peciated with CHARTING AT remember that 11 large outfit with a high reputa- Toon offers more scope Let kom play with the winning ade, in a team captained by a first-class chanman. It makes a world difference.

vitally important that his arst job should be alongside tran of hugh Integrity who will. by example. train him in the righ

approach to his work.

The college later knows the rules of the Kame. but the expert kraws

to play it. how The best engineer hands ?yebr not only his craft but also sense of self-discipline and begnity in work. That's what I hended on to my boy. That's what you should aim al for yours."

wal

Church's view

Conscarus that the basic weak- FINALLY, because though life

18 es

in the schoola, and the many good public, private, and State-aided schools #inply conect afford to extend their sevence departments, 17 leading Industrial emKATTS have fiel founded a £1,500,000 fund to ad uch schoals,

Pame participating include: 101. Courtauld

English Electric and Shell Petroleum.

Any school not maintained by the State is eligible for a granī - from the fund.

But this seems only to touch the range of the problem. Bri- tain lvolta like getting lost in the mee to use the new scien- 1e

developments that bring startlingly increared pro- ductivity and a much higher standard of living within a mat- ter of ten years,

сап

From experience

YET she led the field in the

scientific discoveries which

make these developments pon-

charges it remains basically what it was 2,000 yours ago, with happiness cluding the man who places Leo high a value material things, I rang the bell of Pulhom Palace.

I called to ask The Bishop of London: "How can I best, pre- pare my son for the life ahead? What advice have you, one of the senior prelates of the land, to offer the parents of the rising generation?"

"Your con will live in one of The

really great epochs of world history," he said. "Invention is proceeding at an undreamed-of rate, and discoveries being made

the today will offer

rising generation lalinile possibilities of material

and contert.

prosperity

"Our capacity to harness the forces of the atom

will open new worlds and make porsible explorations beside which all the adventures of history will suund terme.

Religious problem

sible. H's enough to send her ❝THE outstanding question

best scientific engineers off to

It has done. America

The

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WILL BUTLER

STEP INTO

EDEN'S SHOES?

R

By Yorke Henderson

ICHARD AUSTEN

Yet it

Wag

this "intellec-

What sort of a Prime Minister will he make?

begin to think in Sub close mortion with The latter BUTLER gives the prmenient pulley would grins of "Trojan horses” und impression that he have very probably ruined the "Greeks bearing gifts." political carcer of many other 31 small 72181 11.

But "Rah" Butler had Newspaper photographs and stuck so slowly to his Foreign tualism" which put the Conser- cartoons only

Omer brier that he was largely valives back on their feet after strengthen

excused

on Instrument, Labour's landslide victory just very different character today. the impression of slight rather than an advocate, of the after the wor.

But circumstance made him « unpeasemen polley. Neville

never poliúcally ickstage operator. Behind the

thero is BCCT.ca

no room Chabersin went and Richard

close to Churchil and, on the larger-than-life Austen Butler stayed,

personalities. personal plane, his dessicated There's little point in playing to academic manner did not a gallery that cannot see you. could not be commend he allowed in stay at the Forel romanticist, the prewar giant of the personality must be subject

to the intellect.

1109.

Yet, when you suret him, to be a bit he turns out

IKU).

Now The answer To lia enigma of "Rab" Butier Les In

this just ars the following-is oplicul ilusion, 51 tait a pros joetion of Butler's personaliz

Naturally

Office when Exien returned there. He was offered a choice

posts-the Ministry of Infor

mail or the Board of Educa- tion In the former a reputa- tion roull be built or shattered,

Since Butler

The latter was, in wartime, a is bormul

J

He weil set

chosu physically

up humen backwater.

the latter. being, the answer to the Arsl Question would seem lu Juy "No."

For the answer to the serond question, we can look I ha political careur, which stretches unbroken over 21 years. has been very active both public officu and Jehind the scenes for almost all of it. Yet

Ye some sort of "protective colour- Ing" has kept him virtually an quantity. One result is that he has survived politi

unknown

cal shifts and changes which would have scuppered the career of many another politielan.

REPUTATION

Butter was

the itself to

great

anti-appeasement.

Nevertheless, someone in the

ntid

ubliitics a5

Conservative hierarchy realised

tab" Buller's behind-the-scenes policy maker, the Butler took over Conservative Research Depari- ment 10 become. for the duration of the Tories' term of Opposition, the "brains" of the party.

Under his gulinnce, there was I could have stagnated,

He neulded a new Toryism which He not

“property. He worked as used slogato ke ducusly at the job of bringing

owning democracy"

nationalising, education into the mainstream humanising, not

Some of the detail national politics. In this hat.dustry,”

600

was comparatively undisturbed was vague, but Butler's pro- by the slings and arrow; 01 gressive Torylem did the trick. polical conflet

the ordinary people of Britain, he put across the highly "Buties acceptable

ame

Idea

that

the

the

Mie fruit was the Elication Act" which won hun Conservatives could provide the

security The popular reputation

"Socialinis promised and, at the leader of social reform

preserve a man's inm lime, individuality. The Torica return to power in 1951 was the proof of his pudding. It won Chanceller of the Exchequer. for him, tou, the post of

His survival might be explain- ed by arguing that he is #

H& was sull oven men, G H "middle of the road" man who.

LJim with the gradual mellowing of land of odd-man-out in political philosophies on either warts viewed him with mixed political scene. Labour's seat- side, has increasingly been wal

feelings.

They recognised for his true worth,

||| APPROVAL

ND you could bolster th AN

argument by pointing loche approval and praise he has won from luuentlul sections of the British Press which are decided-

social reform.

BACKSTAGE

approved rm.... but were wary about a social-reforming Toy

One Socialist willer was to 1ԱՆ him "the most dangeTOUS Tory of them all"). And to the hard-and-fast

traditionalists of H15 performance in this role

his own party he looked like that curious animal, "the intel- lectual Tory,"

The

"intellectual"

label

ris

was capable but hardly his- ric. The Conservative dichards, who had feared that he might embark on thinly disguised Socialist fiscal policy, were able to relax.

recognition

It was doublles Politician of the academic brilliance. His father, in better employed as a policy of the fact that "Rab" Buller

albered down the slope from

had

PLASTICITY

3.

་

that

Now he stands directly in line of succession to the Premiership. What sort of Prime Minister would he make? Does he want the job? There

utto doubt that he does,

by not Conservative. The pro slemmed from his undoubtedly Labour.

mass-circulation Dally brilliant academid background. tradition of Mirror named "Rib" Butter, in Ho had a familly 1953, their Year,

Sir Montagu Buller, was Alaster of Pombeoke College, maker than as a cut-and-dried Ministry man that resulted in Surely only a middle-of-the- and

been befara road man could have inertied Governor of the Central Pro his taking over the job of Lord "Rab him Privy Seal, whion keeps him at such magnanimity by those who vince are the aworn antiples of his well, after scho

after

schooling at Mari- the top as the Prime Minister's today ir whether the political party?.

Lorough (one of England's top Arst lieutenant but free of the Ministerial Where younger generation will use

cubile schools) had so shone at routing worries of is Sir Frank Whittle today? these new powers for advance- But how does this squat Cambridge that in 1825, who business.

Your gists in industry are ment or self-destruction

with the fact that in the he was 23, he was offered-and continually

the Gov son and his contemporaries must troubled urging

immediate prewar accepted a fellowship, crnment

to consider the facts, provide the answer,

period he was "front man' in "It would seem that mankind the House of Commons for What are the faste? Let's_pin- point them on one firm Forda, as not learnt to tame himself Neville Chamberlain's disastrous Fords, operating since the as thoroughly as he has learnt appeasement policy? A. Britain war on a scientific plan, take in to tame the forces of nature,

The future, each year the axed proportiog

therefore, de- the collapse

collapse of the Spanish of highly educated young men pends on the character of man,

world the maw of wo that they bolleve they will need on his attitude towards the Republic, past the Munich crisis BUT "Rab" Butler helther was E is an "Intellectung" In in key jobs 10, 20, and 80 years universe and life. In other fichard Austen Butler defend the disparaging, Amerloze "egg man when he entered polities, so

words, the problem is a religious ed every

every slop of British policy, head" sense. He is a man win 1920. Ho was and I Member A man of Fords has been one as it has been in every age, edrojuly sidestepped the shares can apply hte koon Injoiect to for the "enfe Conservative constituency of Saffron Walden "Man's pride and ambition, in hasiliq questions, and did it the realities of a duatloth, near the Easex home be shared bis desire for power and wealth.

50. successfully that angry op vloiding and compromising have always lended to obscure į

the the fact that lo

ponents dubbell him "The Where necessary to fit his plane with dis late wife, onearts is

Into the framework of circum child of the vast Courtold fexy merely, a preparation for

the, Artful

title indusbrípa, stancca. life herestier,

it needs strength of charactalex, who had stopped into his hand and than unwavering art willed speeches

Ho got this job from Lord it is not the man to declare

put the manifest boredom of for tor to maintain a closenes

"the-Holigo (witch (jmwefnd – bla the

shope of a Foreign Minister.

ly stick to his guns, come hợi,

that Ford Univerzity

Importança. Z saran against the appestment polley Majesty's Opposition Officer har back to up to sachsen Lend your son towards that: The Foreign to Minister kW M university to see the moduste fall "and" that firmness of Anthony Eden, R. A. Butler's Buch plasticity does not res boy "enginders." Sprock

and you will have presente Boss,, the mars he is comisarza. Iself to atmaineis, right domin | talkood: dane mladi to make his life: a hrings, confidently tipped to wing, Tories, and by fan view

arity by muaplatosis Social

from now.

sppointed University Liaison Officer

What happens? Fords, had six jobs wading for arts gradus abes this years. It sävertised thom and 230 students applied

anginade 'gradustes.

He was an ambitious' young

Glx jobs wero alao walioma God, and to feel that what hap" | that had götigned in protest kich" wind 'cr`lhe'tury, at Her #vineodd him: relu

bory wes: Stly, pens each day is, of everlasting

for

Now he may be on the point of achieving his early political ambillons. Can he, if events demand, show that he is a big man who looks like a big man?

not just, A leader, and adviser of leaders?

Or is it too late for him to

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