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DOES GLASGOW ENCOURAGE EDUCATION'?

23rd April 1948, Page 43
23rd April 1948
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I N your issue dated March 19, you published an article based on a report of the National Standing Joint Committee on Road Transport Education. In this, various organizations were mentioned as having schemes of recognition and reward in connection with education;

and Glasgow Corporation was . included. As I am employed as a mechanic by the Corporation of that city, and am in possession of certificates of automobile engineering, I made application to the Corporation to find out if the scheme was applicable in my case.

The reply was that no such scheme was in operation in any of the Corporation's departments, including that concerned with transport, and that unless I could produce more information regarding it, nothing could be done about the matter. • I shall be glad therefore if you can give me any further particulars on this subject and on what authority the statement concerning the Glasgow Corporation was made, or put me in contact with those from whom I

might obtain this information. A. M. MENZIES. Glasgow, C.4.

[Following the receipt of your letter, we communicated with the honorary secretary of the Committee to which our correspondent refers. He replied that in a letter dated July 7, last year, from the Corporation of Glasgow, which followed a questionnaire on the subject of a refund of examination fees, and prizes for success in examinations, he was given to understand that: (a) For a number of years there has been a scheme in operation under. the Glasgow Corporation by which fees are refunded to students at the Glasgow and West of Scotland College who had been successful in passing their examinations; (b) the Glasgow and West of Scotland Committee on Road Transport Education has a prize scheme in connection with successful examinees under the examinations of the Royal' Society of Arts; (c) diplomas and successful examination results are taken into consideration in promotion. The secretary points-out that this scheme is, perhaps, not so elaborate as are some operated by municipalities and others, but it was correct to refer to it in a paragraph in the annual report of the Committee, as it is a definite scheme of recognition of examination successes—ED.].


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