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Table F —Student Enrolments Two Engineering Schools, by Stages, 1945-1948 (Inclusive)

(3) ENTRANCE QUALIFICATIONS 158. Before commencing study in the intermediate year, a student is required to have University Entrance qualifications. The attention of the Committee was drawn to the apparently high mortality occurring in the intermediate year. Figures indicate that only about half of those entering the B.E. intermediate year will survive the examination. Part of this loss is possibly accounted for by students who transfer to an Arts or Science course during or at the end of the intermediate year. 159. Witnesses who remarked upon the quality of students embarking upon the engineering course were not unanimous as to the improvements, if any, that should be made. Some considered that greater specialization was desirable for future engineering students in the post-primary school; others thought that the greatest need was not for any relatively narrow or specialized post-primary course, but for a general wellbalanced course designed to produce a student with interests outside his own selected field of training. One very convincing piece of evidence indicated that students who had spent at least one year in the Sixth Form after they had obtained University Entrance qualifications showed much better performance than those who commenced the intermediate year with the minimum entrance requirements.

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1945. 1946. ' 1947. 1948. A.U.C.Ic.U.C. Total. A.U.C. C.U.C. Total. 1 L.c. jc.U.C. Total. A.U.C. C.U.C. Total. First professional 20 66 86 38 97 135 61 110 171 44 79 123 Second professional— Civil Electrical Mechanical Chemical 6 3 4 8 5 3 14 8 7 9 7 5 24 22 11 33 29 16 10 7 10 1 28 36 13 4 38 43 23 5 24 6 7 52 31 17 6 76 37 24 6 Total 13 16 29 21 57 78 28 81 109 37 106 143 Third professional— Civil Electrical Mechanical Chemical 13 13 1 1 13 13 1 1 5 17 13 1 1 17 13 6 1 5 43 31 11 1 43 31 16 1 14 43 36 10 1 43 36 24 1 Total 28 28 5 32 37 5 86 91 14 90 104 Fourth or subsequent professional— Civil Electrical Mechanical Chemical 3 3 4 1 3 4 3 1 Total 3 8 11 Totals, first, second, and third Other students 33 110 143 64 186 250 94 277 371 98 283 381 26 119 145 42 79 121 16 72 88 9 73 82 First, second, third, and others 59 229 288 106 265 371 110 349 459 107 356 463