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OBJECT OF THE REPORT:
The object of the report is to set out the conditions
affecting the institution of a system of pre-apprenticeship
training for the engineering industries, as they appeared to the
Principal after a preliminary investigation; and to state in as
full detail as possible the steps that it is proposed should be
taken to meet these conditions.
SCOPE OF THE REPORT:-
It is proposed to deal with the situation in six phases.
1. Preliminary Considerations.
2. Preparations for opening the Junior Technical School.
3. The first opening.
4. Development.
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(a) Students.
(a) Equipment.
(b) Buildings. (e) Curriculum.
(c) Staff.
5. Continuation Classes.
(r) Course Certificates.
6. Relationship to the Technical Institute.
1. PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS.
Perusal of the Government Report on Technical Education
emphasised the difficulties which would face the Junior Technical
School. It is fully realised that the success or otherwise of a
system of technical education, unlike secondary education, must
be judged not on the examination successes of its students but on
their success in later life at the vocation for which they have
been trained. This point is of first importance as if we commence
with the boy of 13, who will enter on his apprenticeship at 17
and qualify as a skilled tradesman at 22, it will be seen that
nine years must elapse before the fruits of the system can be
judged. It naturally follows that the scheme of instruction must
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