TECHNOLOGICAL TRAINING

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28257, 20 April 1957, Page 4

TECHNOLOGICAL TRAINING

Need For National Planning

(New Zealand Press Association) TIMARU, April 19.

Lack of planning on a national basis, particularly in the field of educational training, is the reason for the shortage of competent, well-trained scientists and technologists in Britain and elsewhere according to Dr. P. S. de Q. Cabot, a member of the American Board of Examiners in Professional Psychology. He said in an interview that the exception seemed to be Soviet Russia. It appeared from reports that the Soviet was outstanding in providing training facilities. Dr. Cabot, now management consultant and director of P. S. Cabot and Company, London, is on a 25-day world business trip, and has returned to New Zealand after 20 years abroad. He is a former pupil of the Timaru Boys’ High School.

‘‘ln providing the training for these scientists it is important that we do not lose sight of the training in human relations and in the study of humanities, to overcome the defects of specialised technical education,” Dr. Cabot said. “Perhaps even more serious than the inadequate supply of technicians and technologists are the many problems of a moral and spiritual nature which must be faced by all groups within the community in this, post-war era,” he said. “Management in England had found that the most important need was the recruitment of wellqualified engineers and technologists with a potentiality for future managerial responsibilities, said Dr. Cabot. Benefit to Commonwealth The restlessness and desire of young men in England to seek opportunities abroad was a healthy phenomenon so far as the future of the Commonwealth was concerned, with many staking their future in Canada and, to a less degree, Australia and New Zealand. It was his judgment, however, that there were still untold possibilities in Great Britain for young men in many professions ard other walks of life. Dr. Cabot’s judgment has a world of experience behind it. He left New Zealand in 1930 and went to Columbia University on a Carnegie Corporation fellowship, w 1 ere he undertook post-graduate studies in psychology and vocational guidance. Later he took his doctorate in psychology at Harvard University. For 10 years in Massachusetts he was executive director of the largest and most extensive study aimed at the prevention of delinquency in American history. At the beginning of the war Dr. Cabot was engaged in a security assignment in Washington. Later, in Los Angeles and Boston, he was associated with the largest drug manufacturing and retail organisation in the world. He then joined a prominent firm of management consultants with headquarters in Chicago, moving to England at the end of 1949.

The restlessness and desire of young men in England to seek opportunities abroad was a healthy | phenomenon so far as the future of the Commonwealth was concerned, with many staking their [future in Canada and, to a less degree, Australia and New Zea-' land. It was his judgment, how-1 ever, that there were still untold possibilities in Great Britain for] young men in many professions ard other walks of life. Dr. Cabot’s judgment has a world of experience behind it. He left New Zealand in 1930 and went to Columbia University on a Carnegie Corporation fellowship, w’ ere he undertook post-graduate ‘udies in psvrhninro-

studies in psychology and vocational guidance. Later he took his doctorate in psychology at Harvard University. For 10 years in Massachusetts he was executive director of the largest and most extensive study aimed at the prevention of delinquency in American history.

Dr. Cabot is a qualified clinical psychologist with fellowship status in the United States and Great Britain. As a leading psychologist, author, and sportsman he is one of the most renowned former pupils of the Timaru Boys’ High School.