The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1914. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 25, 30 January 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1914. TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

The idea of Trades Schools which was started some time ago in Britain is finding favor elsewhere. New South Wales has started a scheme and the Minister for Education attaches great importance to the influence of the advisory committee lie proposes to appoint in connection with it. Such advisory committees have proved of invaluable service at Glasgow, where they have been in existence for some timein connection with the West of Scotland Technical Institute. The committees will he purely advisory, and i will not interfere in any way with the policy or administration of the trades schools, but it is essential to the success of the scheme that both employers and employees should co-operate with | the Education Department, for the trades school course is supplementary! to the work done by apprentices in the : workshops. The trades schools’ inst.rutor attends frequently at the J workshop of the apprentice, and ac-| plaints himself with the work done,: so that there may he no wasted effort! by duplicating. The trades school! course is intended to supplement the boy’s work during the day, and to afford him a means of acquiring a

theoretical knowledge of his work, which modern conditions do not permit him to obtain in the ordinarv

course of apprenticeship. The objects arc similar to those of our own Technical Schools and Colleges, which offer special facilities to young students.