Work-study in U.S.A.

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33786, 7 March 1975, Page 8

Work-study in U.S.A.

Mr Peter J. Sewand, who completed a diploma of agriculture course at Lincoln College last year, leaves New Zealand this month to work and study in the United States under the Minnesota international agricultural student work-study programme. Mr Seward comes from Christchurch and is an old student of St Andrew’s College. Another Lincoln diploma holder, Mr M. Fraser. who comes from Rotorua, will also be going to the United States to take part in the same programme. The Christchurch student said this week that he would be attending a twoday orientation course at the University of Minnesota at St Paul on March 26 and 27 and would then work for eight months on a farm in Minnesota. A month’s vacation in Florida would follow the farm work period, and then he would be at the university for four months, during which he hoped to study for units of a degree. If he passed all his units he said he would then obtain a

permit to w'ork for a further nine months in the United States. Mr Seward is hoping to eventually go in for farm management or consultancy work. He may go on to England after his 22 months in the United States. Last year a diploma of horticulture student from Lincoln went to the United States unczr the scheme and also last year while overseas on study leave Mr G. R. Lyall, tutor in rural education at Lincoln, called at St Paul

to complete arrangements for Lincoln students to take part in the programme at the end of their diploma courses. The extension of the Minnesota programme to Lincoln students followed the participation in the programme of Mr Tim Anderson, a former student at Lincoln, who went into it while working in Britain and found it so worthwhile that he suggested that New Zealand should be brought into it and gave Mr Lyall’s name to the authorities at