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Links Between Industry and University: Austin's Apprenticeship Scheme

8th September 1944
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TTOGETHER with some of Birming1 ham's leading industrial organizations, the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., has brought its apprenticeship scheme into line with modern demands. This scheme has been in operation some 35 years, consequently many students (in peace-time 60 per year) have completed their engineering course.

Training is divided under two broad headings, 1 hese relating to student engineering appeentices and trade apprentices. The former are generally recruited from the public, grammar, secondary and junior technical schools. From the commencement of their apprenticeship, students attend, at the company's expense, part-time day courses at the Birmingham Central Technical College. Their first period of training in the works may be considered to cover the general principles of engineering; after this the student is given the opportunity of studying the " possible career chart," drawn up by the company. Having decided • which particular branch of engineering to adopt he can select which • department he will enter to gain the necessary experience. This chart also provides information regarding his technical studies.

Those desiring to become trade apprentices are selected from boys who have been educated at secondary or junior technical schools, or who have left an elementary school at the age of 14 years and have spent two years in the workshops and attended classes in engineering subjects. Their apprenticeship training is directed so as to equip them to become highly skilled craftsmen.

Throughout their indentures, engineering and trade apprentices are paid according to a graduated scale drawn up by the company.

A high percentage of both types of

apprentice qualify yearly for the Birmingham and District Certificate of Apprenticeship, and a • number has obtained the B.Sc. degree (external) in mechanical or electrical engineering.

The Austin Motor Co., Ltd., annually offers scholarships tenable at Birmingham University, which provide a full course in mechanical engineering; they also cover residential maintenance of• the candidates in Chancellor's Hall, Edgbaston, and all fees, including an allowance for personal expenses.

The first Austin scholarship has been awarded to Brian Mills, of Steel Road, Northfield, who is 21 years old and who has just passed the fourth year of the national certificate course in mechanical engineering at the Birmingham Central Technical College. He has been a student engineering apprentice with the Austin concern for the past four years.


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