INTENSIVE TRADE TRAINING IN GREAT BRITAIN
The value of short intensive courses of training was frequently demonstrated during tho war, when both 'officers and men acquired remarkable skill in complicated technical operations after a few weeks carefully organised tuition. One of the old-established glass works in England is making use of this experience in (educating apprentices. The firm finds that owing to the longer period that boys remain at school and to their keener desire to earn good money quickly, they are not easily persuaded to go through tho long years of training formerly considered absolutely necessary to produce capable workmen. Under the new system the boys will attefid even-ing-continuation classes, and receive a thorough grounding in English, arithmetic, the metric system, drawing, and elementary physics and chemistry. Tho more promising boys will be selected for a special course' on the chemical and other properties of glass, and will later be drafted into the factory to do practical work, and also experiment in a special laboratory. A nominal wage is to be paid during probation, and trade union wages when the training is completed.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 160, 2 April 1921, Page 9
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184INTENSIVE TRADE TRAINING IN GREAT BRITAIN Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 160, 2 April 1921, Page 9
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