STUDY COURSES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1943, Page 4

STUDY COURSES

FOR BRITISH MEN & WOMEN ; IN SERVICES r ; TRAINING AFTER THE WAR. i PROPOSAL TO SPEND £15,000,000 A YEAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 30. British men and women in the seri vices are to have a chance after the war to train for a career at the Government’s expense. The Minister of Labour, Mr Bevin, has' announced that the Government intends to spend upward of £15,000,000 yearly to prepare them for professions. Mr Bevin’s scheme of Government-financed education for those whose studies are interrupted by the war will probably extend to 60,000 men and women covering those who wish to become teachers, lawyers, accountants, business executives, architects, technicians and agriculturists. There will be university and maintenance grants up to £250 yearly exclusive of fees; also adequate allowances for wives and children. Those desirous may go to Dominion or other overseas universities or training centres. The “Daily Telegraph” says that the Government, after the war, intends to encourage the development of new British industries based on recent inventions, discoveries, and new industrial processes brought into use during the war, many of which at present are secret, including the technique of radio location, which would revolutionise peacetime television and radio, also the whole range of plastics, which will affect new building methods and mass production generally. The plan to train the services is part of a scheme to ensure a speedy expansion of new industries. It is understood that demobilisation will proceed as far as possible on a basis of “first in, first out.” The Government will also arrange a comprehensive scheme of education training for civil life for those who remain in the Army to police enemy countries.