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[August 7, igi 



other representatives of the universities and technical 

 colleges, twenty-eight gentlemen intimately connected 

 with various industries as owners and managers of 

 works, &c, and eighteen Indian technical students. 

 The information laid before the Committee at the 

 four centres visited has been sufficient to enable it to 

 prepare a report which will indicate the main lines 

 of the policy which should be followed, but the in- 

 quiry as to the facilities available for Indian students 

 for industrial and technological training is by no 

 means exhausted, and it will, the Committee think-, 

 be necessary — if possible, early next session — for some 

 representative of the Secretary of State to visit such 

 centres as Sheffield, Liverpool, Bradford, and New- 

 castle, where it appears probable that special facilities 

 exist for the study of particular subjects. 



Among recommendations made by the Committee 

 the following may be mentioned : — Students sent to 

 this country should ordinarily have read in India up 

 to the standard of the B.Sc. or B.A. with science, 

 or have obtained an equivalent diploma. Exceptions 

 may, however, be made in favour of students who 

 have an hereditary connection with the industry which 

 they propose to study, provided that they know enough 

 English to follow lectures in this country. 



Wherever possible, students should be familiar in 

 India with the industry which they are sent here to 

 study. In mining, this condition must in the future 

 be enforced strictly, and no student be sent to the 

 United Kingdom to study mining unless he has had 

 at least a year's experience down an Indian mine. 



The Local Governments should, in making selec- 

 tions, consult the business men and directors of in- 

 dustry in the province to a greater extent than appears 

 to have been the practice hitherto. Business men 

 are often likely to know of a promising' lad who would 

 make excellent use of a technical scholarship ; they 

 could also advise the Local Government as to the type 

 of man whom the industries of the province need, and 

 tii whom they would readily offer employment. 



Practical training in a business firm should be 

 considered an integral part of the technical scholar's 

 education, and consequently the period for which the 

 scholarship is tenable should be extended so as to 

 cover the time spent in undergoing such training. 



A technical scholarship should not, except in rare 

 cases, be tenable for more than five years, and in 

 very few cases should it be granted for less than 

 three ; whatever duration is assigned to the scholar- 

 ship it should be long enough to include a spell of 

 continuous practical training. Wherever possible this 

 training should be given in the United Kingdom. 



The general effect of the recommendations will be 

 to increase the cost to Government of the system of 

 State technical scholarships. This additional expen- 

 diture will, however, be amply justified if in conse- 

 quence of the changes the Committee proposes the 

 men are better selected and better equipped for the 

 work they have to do. Indeed, the expense of tech- 

 nical scholarships cannot be defended at all, says the 

 report, unless they give the best preparation possible 

 for the highest kind of industrial work. The ideal 

 training for an industrial career is both lengthy and 

 costly, and for this reason it should only be given, 

 at public expense, to men of quite exceptional capacity. 

 The average man, who can never be expected to do 

 more than carry on well-known industries bv well- 

 known methods, can be trained in India; if he is 

 trained in England it should be at private expense. 

 But when the best men, so far as human foresight can 

 discriminate, have been selected, it is false economy 

 to give them any but the very best training-. 



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UNIVERSITY AND EDUCATIONAL 

 INTELLIGENCE. 



Cambridge.— The General Board of Studies will in 

 the ensuing Michaelmas term proceed to appoint a 

 University lecturer in surveying and cartography to 

 hold office until September 30, 191b. Particulars of 

 the stipend and duties of the lecturer can be obtained 

 on application to the Vice-Chancellor. Candidates 

 are requested to send their applications, with such 

 testimonials as they think fit, to the Vice-Chancellor 

 on or before October 11. 



Mr. J. H. Burn. of Emmanuel College, has been 

 elected into the Michael Foster research studentship. 

 The Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 

 1S51 have, on the recommendation of the Vice-Chan- 

 cellor, appointed Mr. 1. Abrahamson, of Clare Col- 

 lege, tn an industrial bursary. 



The Raymond Horton-Smith prize for 1913 is 

 awarded to F. A. Roper and F. S. Scales, who are 

 adjudged equil for theses for the degree of Doctor of 

 Medicine. Subjects: "Creatinine and Creatin Meta- 

 bolism, especially in Reference to Diabetes," and "The 

 Electrocardiogram as an Aid to Diabetes." The M.D. 

 degree committee expresses appreciation of the high 

 standard attained by most of the theses submitted for 

 the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Manv of these 

 theses, either records of clinical investigations on 

 obscure diseases or of original laboratory research, 

 ought, in the opinion of the committee, to be pub- 

 lished. The theses submitted by Dr. A. Abrahams, on 

 the analysis of nystagmus, Dr. H. T. Ashbv, on the 

 anaemias of infancy and childhood with special refer- 

 ence to the connection of iron with anaemia, Dr. A. F. 

 MacCallan, on trachoma and Egyptian ophthalmias, 

 and Dr. L. B. C. Trotter, on embolism and throm- 

 bosis of the mesenteric vessels, are adjudged worthy 

 of special distinction. Amongst the theses not eligible 

 to compete for the Raymond Horton-Smith prize that 

 submitted by Dr. W. E. Hume, on a clinical and 

 pathological study of the heart in diphtheria, attained 

 a very high standard of merit. 



LOiNDON. — Since the appointment of a full-time 

 secretary, the work of the Appointments Board, con- 

 stituted by the Senate to assist graduates and students 

 of the University in obtaining appointments, and to 

 coordinate and supplement the work done by the 

 schools and institutions of the University in this "direc- 

 tion, has increased to a very considerable extent. The 

 secretary, Dr. A. D. Denning, will be pleased to give 

 further information as to the Board, and to see gradu- 

 ates, at the central offices of the University, South 

 Kensington, on Wednesday afternoons, 2 to 5, or 

 Thursdays, 12 to 1.30, or at other times bv arrange- 

 ment. Approximately 1000 posts have been notified to 

 suitably qualified graduates registered with the Board 

 within the last three months and many appointments 

 secured. 



Bv the will of the Right Hon. Stuart, Baron Rendel, 

 of Hatchlands, Guildford, who died on June 4, the 

 sum of 5000/. is bequeathed to the Universitv College 

 of Wales, Aberystwith, of which he was president. 



We learn from Science that the General Education 

 Board of the United Slates recently promised Wash- 

 ington and Jefferson College a grant of 20,000?. on 

 condition that the college raised 80,000?. by June 30 

 last. On the date mentioned the college was' able to 

 announce that 88, 000?. had been collected. Except 

 for 10,000/., which is to be expended on a physics 

 department, the entire sum now at the disposal of the 

 college is to be added to the general endowment fund. 



