TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 271, 9 June 1888, Page 7

TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

At the meeting" of the Te Arolia School Committee, held on Monday evening last, the undermentioned circular?, forwarded by the Board of Education, ■were read. ~VTe have much pleasure in giving publicity to the information they contain, by which it will be scon students attending the Auckland University College nrc afforded advantages of a most important character at a trifling cost. The value of systematic training such as that referred to, can scarcely be overestimated, .and the holders of certificates from the College will have a great advantage over those less fortunate in competing for positions of importance. AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. DEPARTMENT OF, APPLIED SCIENCE. A school of Applied Science has recently 1 oen in-tituted in the Auckland University College. In this Department the couise of in^ti notion j'p designed with a view to fitting ihe student for the profession of engineer, architect, or surveyor, or to render capable of undertaking the direction of mines, metallurgical works and factories. The course of instruction will be as follows :—: — First Year. — Mathematics, elementary physic?, chemistry, drawing. Second Year. — Mechanics, mathematics, geology, drawing. Third Year. — Engineering : Mathematics (adv.t, surveying, applied mechanics, instruction in engineer's office. Architecture : Piinr-iples or architecture, surveying 1 , applied mechanics, instruction in architect's office. Mining: Mine surveying, mining, metallugy, experience under ground. Surveying : Mathematics (adv.), nstronomv. surveying, instruction in stirvevoi's office. During the first two years of the course all the students will do the same work. ])ui ing the third year they will be subdivided, and their studies are to he accomt anierl hv a large amount of practical (,~p»l it i, re.

Students who have completed the course, ami have complied with ,ill othe.r regulations of the collide, will be granted a eeitiiicate to that effect. The utility of systematic (mining of the kind indicated above is so <xeuei,i!ly appreciated in oilier countiies tint impoit.mt posts aio helu almost exclusively bv personi. who liave been students in the higher teclinie.il schools. E\eiy endeavom will be madoto ensiire the ieeo,unition, by Governments and public bodies, of the coitifioulos granted by this College ; and it is believed that the holders of these coitilioates will find them of great use throughout the Auslialn^ian Colonies. ' The lectuios of the Session of 1888 will commence on Monday, April ( .Hh. All fuilhei infounation may be obtained on application to the "Registrar o£ the College at his office, in Eden-street.