Training for the., Motor Industry
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'THE training of more and better
qualified junior executives has for many years been a primary aim of the 'Institute of the Motor Industry, said its president, Mr. Stanley S. Dawes, at the annual dinner last week.
Among the facilities offered by the Institute was the four-year residential diploma course at the College. of Technology, Loughborough. However, the needs of the industry were greater than the facilities available and there was a case for further education for young men who had not the necessary qualifications for entry to Loughborough.
Such a course, lasting three years and covering technical and administrative subjects, was now available at the 13romsgrove College for Further Education. Entry was open to boys with the General Certificate of Education at ordinary level. The course had been devised with the co-operation of the British Motor Corporation, with the full support of the Institute.
Certificates awarded to successful students would be countersigned by the Institute and the .Ministry of Education. Plans for other courses, with a more obvious industrial slant, were also being considered, said Mr. Dawes.
TOO MANY IDEAS
AFTER four meetings aimed at deciding what make 400 new buses should be, the Ceylon Transport Board have failed to reach agreement. At the first meeting one make was decided upon, but this decision was altered at the next meeting. The third meeting saw another make chosen, but then another meeting was called and a heated discussion resulted in breakdown.
Consequently, 100 Mercedes-Benz are being ordered for the time being until a decision on the remaining 300 can be arrived at.