TRAINING COURSES FOR ENGINEERS

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25607, 23 September 1948, Page 3

TRAINING COURSES FOR ENGINEERS

CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE TO HEAR EVIDENCE The consultative committee set up by the Minister of Education (Mr T. H. McCombs) to hear evidence about the training of professional engineers will open its Christchurch sittings at Canterbury University College this morning. The committee, which has already heard evidence at Wellington and Auckland, is visiting Christchurch principally to inspect the School of Engineering at the college and Cnristchurch Technical College. It will be received by the chairman of the college council (Sir Joseph Ward), who with the chairman of the engineering sub-committee of the council (Mr C. W. Hamann) will give evidence on the policy of the college and the school of engineering. Evidence will also be given by members of the staff, students and other interested parties. The committee will consider what are the most satisfactory courses to be undertaken at post-rrimary schools by prospective entrants to the engineering profession, whether the present standard of entrants to degree and diploma courses in engineering is satisfactory. and other related matters.

The chairman of the committee is Mr E. Caradus, who retired recently from the position of chief inspector of post-primary schools. The other members are as follows:—Messrs W. G. Morrison and G. S. J. Read (representing the New Zealand Institution of Engineers), F. T. M. Kissel (Engineers’ Registration Board). H. L. Hume (Ministry of Works), Professors T. D. J. Leach and G. G. Calvert (University of New Zealand), E. M. Hogben and M. A. Bull (New Zealand Secondary Schools’ Association), A. McFadyen and J. Sukolski (New Zealand Technical School Teachers’ Association), and H. Henderson and A. R. Hynes (Education Department). Messrs A. B. Thompson and E. G. Budge (Education Department) form the secretariat, Mr Budge being secretary.