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all Artificers and Mechanicians with one year's experience following the successful completion of their training as eligible for registration as Technicians (CEI).

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Officer Cadet and Young Officer Training

6.

The new pattern of training the officer entry, introduced at

Sandhurst in 1972, is proving successful and only minor refinements

have had to be made to the syllabus.

Degree Training

7. 192 serving officers (170 in 1973) and eleven University Cadets

(13 in 1973) are reading for degrees in Engineering and Applied

Science at the Royal Military College of Science. In addition, 88

serving officers (79 in 1973) and 126 University Cadets (101 in

1973) are at universities.

Officer Training Review

8. The Committee on Army Regular Officer Training has produced a

preliminary report and is expected to make its final recommendations

shortly.

Training of Junior Soldiers

9. In the Statement on the Defence Estimates 1969 (Cmnd, 3927), it

was announced that the Army was examining the arrangements for train-

ing the junior entry The results of this study were announced in

November 1973, and the following measures have been implemented:

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the training of Junior Tradesmen has been transferred

to the junior training units of individual Arms and

Corps, and the establishments at Rhyl and Troon closed;

the training of Junior Infantrymen is now carried out

at Divisional Depots and all Infantry Junior Leaders

are now trained centrally at the Infantry Junior Leaders

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