NINE SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 175, 19 April 1940, Page 11

NINE SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED

Public Administration

TENABLE AT VICTORIA COLLEGE

Government approval of the award of nine scholarships to selected officers of the New Zealand Public Service, tenable at Victoria University College, Wellington, was announced yesterday. The scholars will take a special course in public administration for the Diploma in Public Administration. The nine candidates selected for the first scholarships are:—

L. A. Atkinson, M.Com. (Customs Department). K. J. Scott, M.A., LL.B. (Public Trust Office).

C. A. McFarlane, B.Com. (Post and Telegraph). T. P. Davin, LL.M. (Railways). K. G. Reid, LL.B. (Railways). T. R. Smith, M.Com. (Industries and Commerce).

K. A. Wills. 8.A., B.Com. (Industries and Commerce). A. G. Rodda, A.I.A. (Land and Income Tax). M. J. Moriarty, A.I.A. (Customs).

All the scholars are married men. The scholarships, tenable for two years, have a value of £l7O a year, and the scholars are to give an undertaking to remain in the service of the State for at least five years after completion of their course. The two-year course will occupy the scholars full-time, the scholarships operating from March this year till October, 19-11. During the intervening long vacation the scholars will be permitted to resume their positions in the service at.their ordinary rates of salary. A preliminary examination in public administration will be taken at the end of the first year, and the final examination not later than the end of the second year. Progressive Scheme. “The Government and ‘the Public Service Commissioner are to be congratulated on instituting this scholarship plan.” said the Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at Victoria College, Professor L. Lipson, in an interview yesterday. “It has placed New Zealand abreast of the most modern developments in staff training in any country. I am very happy indeed to be able to participate in such a progressive scheme. “Previously it has been the principle to offer such opportunities for professional study only. Thus in New Zealand various scholarship facilities have been offered to engineers, veterinarians, valuers, and others, but thio is Hie first time that such provision has been made for education in administrative leadership. The course of the diploma in public administration is designed as a broad education in social science in general, with a special treatment of public administration. Moreover, it is an essential feature of the course that the scholars, who are chosen on merit, will be coming full time. They will be given a comprehensive course of reading. and lectures, and will receive individual instruction in seminars and tutorials. "In these critical times we depend more than ever on the continued efficiency of our trained administrative personnel,” Professor Lipson concluded. “Preparing the leadership of the future is an urgent need of the present.”