Engineering Cadetships

Abstract

THE Government announces the foundation of engineering cadetships, open to youths of sixteen to nineteen years of age, inclusive, and leading to technical commissions in the fighting services. The Government will pay the necessary educational fees and allow each cadet a maintenance grant. Youths of 16-19 are invited to apply if (a) they left school before October of this year ; (b) are not employed in any branch of engineering ; and (c) have obtained at least the school certificate with a credit in mathematics or general science or physics or an equivalent examination. The length and character of the training, which will be at a technical college, will be adjusted to age and educational qualifications, and may extend to two and a half years. Boys of sixteen will have preliminary instruction at a technical college or other appropriate institution. The training courses will cover the basic engineering science required in the associate membership examinations of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers or the Institution of Electrical Engineers. In the case of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, cadets who successfully complete their course will be exempted from sections A and B of the associate membership examination. Youths of eighteen who have been called up may apply for cadetships, and boys born in 1924 and still at school may also be accepted. Applications will be received by local appointments offices of the Ministry of Labour and National Service or by the Appointments Department, Sardinia House, London, W. C. 2.