PROGRESS OF ROAD TRANSPORT EDUCATION THE first annual report of the
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National Standing Joint Committee on Road Transport Education, which was formally constituted on. March 12, 1945, has. just been issued. The honorary secretary is Mr. C. F King.
Minst.T. 16, Colebrooke Drive, Wanstead, London, E.11. The chairman is Mr. Raymond W. Birch.
The committee is composed of representatives of appropriate industrial and educational organizations and technical institutions, together with a few wellknown individual members. To give the scheme the widest publicity possible. local committees have been set up in a number of centres, which at present comprise the Metropolitan Area, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and District, and Yorkshire.
It is pointed out that there is a considerable shortage of text books; apart from this, there is a deficiency in up-todate books.
Examinations were held by the Royal -Society of Arts for the first time for first-year subjects under the scheme. There were 462 entries, and the examiner's report discloses that 76 per cent. of the papers gained first and secondclass certificates; the least satisfactory were in road transport operation (passenger), where the pass figure was 62 per cent. In the elements of road transport engineering, the results were very creditable to students and lecturers.