INDIAN STUDENTS
AT MASSEY COLLEGE INDIAN GOVERNMENT PLAN Agricultural students from India who are now in New Zealand number 10, and two more are expected shortly. The men, whose average age is about 24, are taking courses, mainly in dairy science, at the agricultural colleges -in this country.
They have ■ been drawn mostly from Indian universities and have had a few yedrs’ experience as instructors or inspectors with ths Department of Agriculture in: their own country. The Government of India is sponsoring this scheme, whereby the men learn the latest methods of agriculture in its many branches, and then return to their own country to act as instructors.
These 10 men represent only a small segment of the large-scale plan upon which the Government of India has embarked in an effort to raise the standard of education and living.
Young men interested in different aspects of education, ranging from medicine, teaching, engineering, industrial and applied chemistry, to branches of agriculture and mining, dre now studying on bursaries in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Denmark and Holland. They have undertaken to serve in their own country on completion of their studies abroad.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 56, 21 July 1947, Page 7
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