Old School Tie Monopoly Broken at Foreign Office
(N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.) (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 3. Of the first 47 candidates who passed the recent British Foreign Office service examinations, 32 came from different schools and 17 from Government grant-aided schools. This, it is claimed, is an indication that the public school monopoly of the staffing of the Foreign Office has been broken by tha new regulations, which are intended to make entry into the service easier for men with good service records but who lack the academic qualifications formerly demanded. Many candidates 'accepted at the examinations came from the services. One won the D.S.O. and the D.S.C. as a submarine commander, another won the M.C. and bar in Italy, and another escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland and lived for 14 months behind the enemy lines before recapture. The new system of examination closely follows that adopted by army officer selection boards. One in every ten in the first list of candidates passed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26274, 4 October 1946, Page 5
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