NEW PROFESSIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 71, 23 February 1937, Page 12

NEW PROFESSIONS.

WORK FOR GIRLS. Miss F. W. Goodwin, for some years principal of the Eltham College for Girls in South Australia, and now a resident of. Christchurch, returned last week from a 10 months’ visit to Britain, Europe, and the United States. The greatest problem facing parents in England, she said, was the finding of a suitable occupation for their children. To solve this problem a series of careful tests had been evolved by the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, one of the newest and most progressive of English organisations 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. 1

A profession of particular interest to women was that of electrical housecraft, Miss Goodwin said. This profession was open to adults, 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 trained experts in hospitals, private practice in canteens, and instituions 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 after a certain amount of specialisation at school the girl who entered the Institue of Planning and Research for National Development in Bedford Square had before her an interesting and fascinating career. 411 these new instituions and schools proved that the old system of education were definitely lacking. Both parents and educationists had realised during the depression that the time had come for a more practical view of education.