UP-TO-DATE ENGLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 19

UP-TO-DATE ENGLAND

SPECIAL SCHOOLS IN LONDON

TRAINING FOR NEW PROFESSIONS

"There seems to be a growing opin|ion in the more distant parts of the Empire, including New Zealand, that England is not what she used to be, and that for any up-to-date product or movement you have to look to the United States or. Europe," said Miss F. W. Goodwin, of Christchurch, who returned to Auckland on Monday by the .Awatea after a ten months' holiday in the British Isles, Europe, and the United States, reports the "New Zealand Herald." Miss Goodwin was for some years principal of the Eltham ■College for Girls in South Australia;

and has been .living .with her mother at CHristchurch for'the' past three years. She said she was very impressed with conditions in' England. . ■ (

"Somehow, I had expected to find England contentedly and doggedly behind the times, and instead I found some of the finest examples of efficiency and sound • progress,"- Miss Goodwin said. . She was particularly interested in the efforts being made in child and adult :' education.-- Educationists were realising that-the'host of new professions open today demanded a specialised and practical training. FINDING SUITABLE OCCUPATION. The education of today aimed at preparing children or young men and woi men for a career that would . make happy and useful workers-: of them. Among the many new. professions receiving direct' attention in England were' broadcasting and television,: aviation, film work, research work in such directions as the conquest of cancer, dress designing, interior decoration, dietetics, chiropody, estate management, electrical housecraft, scientic farming, and landscape gardening. Most schools in England now possessed means of giving expert advice on the choice of careers, and many advocated a certain degree of specialisation before the pupil left.

The greatest problem facing parents was the finding of a suitable occupation for their children. To solve this problem a series of careful tests had be«o evolved by the National Institute

of Industrial Psychology, one of the newest and most progressive of . English' organisations. England possesses more special schools than any • other country she had visited, Miss Goodwin said. She was also interested in the way in which many well-known schools and universities were co-operating with different practical organisations, institutes, and professional councils. The London School of Broadcasting had studios which were a replica of those at Broadcasting House, and the school worked in conjunction with the 8.8.C. Advertising as a profession was open to girls as well as boys. The Institute of Incorporated Practitioners in Advertising held examinations for associates and fellows. One of its most important aspects was in placing the students as they were trained. TRAINING OF DIETITIANS. A profession of pai'ticular interest to women was that of electrical house-

craft, Miss Goodwin said. This profession was open to adu\ts, although both the Women's Electrical Association and the London School of Electrical Domestic Science preferred students just leaving school. Demonstrators, teachers, cooks of all types, and travelling lecturers were trained by both schools.

The increasing employment of trained1 experts in hospitals, private practice in canteens,' and institutions had led to accepted training and status in the new profession of dietetics, ■' in which the London School of Dietetics and the King's College of Domestic and Social Science in London gave excellent training.

Many women in England were becoming interested in estate management, and aftar a certain amount of specialisation at school the girl who entered the Institute of Planning and Research for National Development in Bedford Square had before her an interesting, and .fascinating career. All these new institutions and schools proved that the old system of education was definitely lacking. Both parents and educationists had realised during the depression that the time had come 'for a more practical view of education.

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