SCHOOLS AND THE FOREIGN OFFICE
LONDON, Oct. 3. Of the first 47 candidates who passed the rccent British Foreign Office Service examination,*32 eame from dift'erent schools and 15 from Government grant-aided schools. This, it is elainied, is an indication that the public scliool monopoly of the staffing of the Foreign Office has been broken by the new reguJations, which are intended to make entry into the service easier for men with good service records but who lack the- academie qualifications formerly demanded. Many of the candidates accepted at the examinations came from the Services. One won the D.S.O. and D.S.C. as a submarine commander; another won the M.O. and Bar in Italyj and another eseaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland and lived for 14 months behind the enemv lines before being recaptured. The new system' of the examinations closely follows that adopted by the Army Officer Seleetion Boards. One in every 10 on tlie first list of candidates passed.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19461005.2.35
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 5 October 1946, Page 5
Word Count
160SCHOOLS AND THE FOREIGN OFFICE Chronicle (Levin), 5 October 1946, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in