Accountancy course

Press, 28 October 1982, Page 16

Accountancy course

Sir,—l am grateful to M. A. Alexander (October 22) for pointing out that there is job potential for engineering graduates. However, the engineering students are obviously aware that there is no job potential for arts graduates, as they have referred that faculty for my attention. One arts graduate admitted to me that he could not obtain employment and so was employed on a P.E.P. scheme doing what was, in effect, his hobby: This is wanton inefficient waste of taxpayers’ funds. To curb this type of gross waste of taxpayers’ money, I would suggest that the intake of arts students be immediately reduced by one half and the accountancy department increased accordingly. In addition to all accountancy graduates being able to obtain employment and contribute to taxation instead of taking from it, some will enter private practice and thereby be the means of providing employment for further staff, thus assisting the nation’s unemployment problem. What do the university authorities think of this suggestion?—Yours, etc., P. ROSELLI. Westport, October 26, 1982.