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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.