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(1) the lack of reasonably remunerated openings,
(2) the difficulty connected with securing post-
graduate training as apprentices.
It is
As regards the first difficulty I find myself
in agreement with the Sub-Committee of the Senate.
The chaos of China has prevented development.
idle to expect young Chinese to spend four years at
what is to them an expensive university, with a view
to becoming graduates in mechanical engineering, if their
only prospect is to secure an occasional engineering
post in a coasting steamer on a remuneration
substantially lower than what would be paid to a
British engineer who had started much younger, because
he had never been to a niversity.
12.
As regards workshop training, the local
engineering firms have been willing to adrit
engineering students to their works during vacations
and one of the leading fims has recently arranged to make this training more of a reality. But practical
training for a month or so during the summer vacation
is not and never can be a substitute for a definite
apprenticeship, taken, in the case of an engineering
graduate, after graduation. The local engineering
firms can not see their way to taking the University's
engineering graduates as apprentices and to paying them
during their apprenticeships a living wage.
In
13. This, however, is now the universal practice
of all the leading engine ring firms in Britain.
my recent congregation speech I reported that Messrs.
Norris, Henty & Gardners Ltd., Messrs. Metropolitan-
Vickers Electrical Export Co., and the British Thomson-
Houston Co. Ltd., had each taken last year one of our
engineering graduates as an apprentice and that in each
case
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