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THE reference to the training of engineers which appeared in the issue of NATURE of July 29, p. 218, is of special interest at the present time in view of the forthcoming conference convened by the Institution of Civil Engineers for February 1940, and of the grave shortage of engineers, not only in Great Britain, but also in the Dominions. The remark made in the latter part of the article on the perfunctory interest shown by the governing bodies of our engineering institutions in this question can be fully endorsed from long personal experience. Thus the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers examines many hundreds of candidates yearly, but remains solely an examining body, and offers no official assistance to those candidates who are not in a position to go to a university or recognized technical college for their training, and this applies also to the Institution of Civil Engineers itself.
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KNIGHT, B. Training of Engineers. Nature 144, 673 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144673c0
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