PRISONERS OF WAR
EDUCATION FACILITIES Details of courses of study (including several for honour degrees at London University) now being made available to our prisoners of war in Germany have just been supplied by the Industrial Publicity Unit, working in association with the British Ministry of Information, states “National Education.” In all, 1.832 of our men there are now preparing for their return to civil life as engineers, accountants, geologists, book-keepers, poultry raisers and for other careers. They are studying French. German. Chinese, Japanese, even Provencal philology. This unique educational departure has been made possible by a fact in organisation working from the New Bodleian Library, Oxford, where Miss Ethel Herdman, M.A., of the Red Cross Book Department, is arranging these and similar courses of study for our prisoners of war. In a long room lined with tables are the sections for each prison camp to which material for study is sent and frorri which letters have arrived asking for vocational, cultural or educational advice. Engineering is the most popular subject, then modern languages. Wireless is very popular, too, but books on it have been prohibited. In addition to the arrangements made for prisoners by London University to work for honours degrees, many trade sr.d craft institutes are co-operating with Oxford.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 18 February 1942, Page 5
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