EDUCATION: SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION ON THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE (LETTER TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE CANTERBURY COLLEGE FROM THE PROFESSOR IN CHARGE, RELATIVE TO).

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1905 Session I, E-15

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1905. NEW ZEALAND.

EDUCATION: SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION ON THE CONTINENT OF EUROPE (LETTER TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE CANTERBURY COLLEGE FROM THE PROFESSOR IN CHARGE, RELATIVE TO).

Laid on the Table of both Houses of the General Assembly by Leave.

European Scientific and Technical Education. School of Engineering, Electricity, and Technical Science, Sm, — Canterbury College, Christchurch, New Zealand, 28th March, 1905. I have the honour to report that when in Europe last year I spent a considerable amount of time investigating what was being done there in the way of scientific and technical education, more especially in connection with those subjects which fall within the'scope of the School of Engineering, Electricity, and Technical Science. For this purpose I visited, amongst others, the following universities and technical schools : In Great Britain —Glasgow University ; Edinburgh University ; the University of Newcastle; the University of Leeds; the University of Birmingham; the University of Liverpool; Bristol University ; Cambridge University; University College, London; King's College, London University; the City Guilds Technical College, Finsbury; the City Guilds Central Institute, South Kensington ; the Manchester School of Technology; Birmingham Technical School; the Herriott Watt College, Edinburgh ; and the Sunderland Technical College. Trinity College, Dublin, the University of Manchester, and many of the technical schools at which I had been five years previously were not revisited. On the Continent I spent some time at the Konigliche Technische Hochschule, Charlottenburg ; the Konigliche Mechanische Teehm'sche Versuchs-Anstalt; and the Reiehsanstalt, Berlin. I then went to the Dresden Technische Hochschule ; the great Mining School of Freiburg ; the University of Leipsic; the Technical High School of Munich; the Polytechnischen Schule, Zurich ; the Technical High School, Karlsruhe ; and the Technical High School, Darmstadt. I was impressed by the great development of education in applied science since my last visit live years ago, although much was being done then. At present all the German States are spending money lavishly on buildings and equipment, and the great manufacturing firms are assisting in no half-hearted way. The general opinion in Germany appears to be that this extensive provision of scientific education has been a successful experiment, and that the present prosperity of the country is due in no small measure to the systematic instruction and research which is carried ou in the great State-supported institutions. In England, too, there is a feeling that German competition in the manufacturing arts can be best met by employing German methods; so the Manchester School of Technology and the Engineering side of the new University of Birmingham are confessedly modelled upon Continental lines. Should you at some future date desire details of these methods, I shall be happy, as far as lies in my power, to supply them. I have, &c. Eobt. Scott, M.1.C.E., Professor in Charge. The Chairman of the Board of Governors, Canterbury College. Approximate Cost of Paper.— Preparation, not given; printing (1,425 copies), £1.

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