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Professional Qualifications
THE annual weekend course organized by the Yorkshire section of the Institute of Transport in conjunction with the West Riding County Council will take place from July 15 to 17.
The subject of the course will be "Transport— Co-ordination or Integration?" and four eminent speakers will be giving papers. The Yorkshire section committee has taken over all the accommodation for this weekend.
Swedish Container Pool THE possibility of a Swedish container pool
is being studied by a number of Swedish shipowners and finance houses. The object of the pool will be to purchase containers, pallets, semi-trailers, and handling equipment for leasing. The pool will be operated by Container Services (Norden) AB.
TRANSPORT managers would never I achieve their correct status until they had professional qualifications of a similar standing to doctors, solicitors and engineers. This was said by Mr. G. F. A. Wilmot, organizing lecturer for transport studies, University of London, at a meeting of the Central London area of the TRTA last week. Such a qualification should be obtained by anyone wishing to be considered for a senior transport management post.
Transport was one of the biggest social problems remaining to be solved this century, went on Mr. Wilmot. The trouble was that people outside transport would take the
decisions and fundamental changes would take place without reference to particular transport bodies.
At present there were a number of organizations engaged in road transport education. Only the Institute of Transport was making a country-wide contribution with professional qualifications, but basically it was an examining body only. The Institute lacked appreciation of the fact that road transport now accounted for more than three quarters of all freight movements in this country.
Mr. Wilmot said that the various associations should sink their differences, plan some form of co-ordination, and work towards a major "Institute". The universities should be brought in also, and provide full-time courses for undergraduates.
Two factors likely to help improve the situation were the Industrial Training Act, which would force management to give serious thought at all levels of management to training, and the awarding of degrees to those who successfully completed courses based on the sandwich technique.