TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 257, 29 July 1942, Page 8

TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Correspondence Courses

Ilecommentlationis that the Public Works Department be advised that the college was prepared to offer courses of instruction to engineers forthwith, that the necessary steps be taken to prepare assignments of work to complete the courses for the professional examinations for engineers, and that approval be obtained for the appointment of a full-time bead of a correspondence department, were adopted by the Board of Governors of the Wellington Technical College on Mondas' night.

Work in the correspondence section bad, up to the present, aimed at providing suitable trade courses for those who were remote from technical institutes, reported the director, Mr. R. G. Ridling. “We have been asked,” he added, “by the officers in charge of the Public Works Department to prepare correspondence courses for cadets who are learning civil engineering, but the intervention of military activities has prevented any progress in this work. Recently, through a grant provided by the department, we were able to purchase outright assignments of engineering courses which make the commencement of this work possible. Courses already prepared and partially prepared increase very considerably the service we can give to engineers. Tn addition to the m ork outlined above, assignments purchased include courses in pure and applied mathematics for B.A. and B.Sc.”