POST-SERVICE EDUCATION

Evening Star, Issue 25472, 1 May 1945, Page 7

POST-SERVICE EDUCATION

136 COURSES FOR SERVICEMEN ACCOUNTANCY FAVOURED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, April 30. Up to March 31, 1,386 former soldiers, airmen, arid mercantile marine personnel had sought to advance themselves iri the field of education by taking advantage of the Rehabilitation Board's scheme of subsidised and fullypaid studies for ex-servicemen an/1 women. Covering ah imposing list of 136 courses and degrees, the subjects ranged from medicine to dressmaking. Of the total number 1.166 were men and women who had served a'broad, the remaining 220 having had home Service only. Those holding full-time bursaries numbered 434, while 23 had been awarded bursaries that entitled them tp study at universities overseas. There had also been 863 men and women granted fees and books for their chosen courses, and in addition 66 had been in receipt of miscellaneous small grants for educational purposes. By a large margin accountancy seemed to be most favoured by exservicemen taking part-time courses, there benig no fewer than 343 students, including 285 men who returned from overseas. Next to accountancy came ijbose desirous of obtaining the_ bachelor of arts degree, while navigation was third on the list. Then came bachelor of commerce, bachelor of science, wool classing, medicine, and general agriculture, etc. In many other courses and degrees only a few ex-servicemen and women had in each case come forward. Five had so far commenced study for the taking of holy orders. Some of the courses show a distinctly modern trend, such as salesmanship, aero engineering, advertisings and ticket writing.'