HELPING STUDENTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22596, 8 December 1936, Page 11

HELPING STUDENTS

EMPLOYMENT OVERSEAS

LONDON COMMITTEE'S AIMS VALUE TO DOMINION Details of the aims and objects of a recently-formed students' committee of the British Council, established at the instance of the Foreign Office in London, were reported to yesterday's meeting of the Auckland University College Council by the registrar, Mr. M. R. O'Shea. The principal purposes of the committee are that it should act as a clearing house for inquiries from students and other persons or bodies overseas as to facilities for study or practical training in the United Kingdom, and deal with corresponding inquiries from persons in the United Kingdom as regards opportunities overseas.

The students are divided into two main groups—those wanting to go abroad to complete their academic education, and those who, having completed their general education, wish to enter the United Kingdom to gain practical experience in the particular profession or branch of industry or commerce in which they intend to make their careers. For this purpose they would require employment, paid or unpaid, in a professional, industrial or commercial concern in England.

Jn the first six months of its work the committee dealt with <JO applications from overseas students for assistance in obtaining educational and training facilities in the United Kingdom. It placed two students from the United Kingdom in industrial works abroad. " The openings made available for students from New Zealand are most valuable," said Mr. O'Shea. " Many of our students, both professional and commercial, would he able to manage a visit to England for a few years, provided they were fairly certain that a student of good calibre would havo every prospect of being placed in a position where he could obtain valuable experience upon the linos of his proposed life work." Sir Henry Hortoii said Rhodes scholars and other prominent students from New Zealand sought the wider fields abroad, as they were not given sufficient opportunities in the Dominion. Positions should be made for them iu the Civil Service.

" "\\ e want brains in our Civil Service." said the president, Mr. T. U. Wells.