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mechanical engineers, the Faculty should aim at attracting
selected apprentices with a view to giving them an education calculated to make the capable of being
efficient engineers to whom more responsible executive
work could be entrusted".
The Matriculation examination was modified so as
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to facilitate the entrance of apprentices into the University, but no apprentice has ever been ad itted or is likely to be for some time to come. An apprentice can not get anywhere near the standard of the University's Matriculation.
What the Committee recommended and Government are, I understand, giving effect to this recommendation is a suitable system of pre-apprenticeship education conducted in a Junior Technical school, followed by an apprenticeship in which practical training in workshops will be supplemented by technical and other education in evening classes, these evening classes being also organised and directed by the Junior Technical School. The Committee's hope was by this means "to produce leading hands, junior foremen who can develop into foremen and draftsmen and in this way to create a class from which there may occasionally emerge a specially brilliant youth who can be sent to the University.
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In paragraph 39 of the Committee's report I am quoted ad having written: -
"It seems to be beyond question that such a training
as the University can give, even though that training includes workshop training as obligatory, can not be regarded as a process which can be expected to produce qualified practical engineers. To do this the University course must be supplemented by a definite system of apprenticeships covering a reasonable period in well-equipped and efficiently controlled works under effective supervision".
10. The great difficulties in the way of the University's training mechanical and electrical engineers have been: -
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