The Royal Technical College, Glasgow

Abstract

IN the building up of the world-wide reputation of the 'Scots engineer', the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, may fairly claim to have played a very large part, and much of this work has been done in its evening classes. It is noteworthy that of all the colleges that come within the purview of the University Grants Committee, the R.T.C. has far and away the largest number of evening students. Its recently published annual report shows that, notwithstanding the transfer of the classes in music, with about a hundred students, at the end of the preceding session, to the Scottish National Academy, there was an increase in the evening student enrolment from 2,624 to 2,665, of whom a very large majority were engineering students. Some indication of the exceptional range and standard of the evening classes is given by the fact that the enrolment included 100 graduates of universities of Scotland, England, Ireland, Canada, India and China. An important, and seemingly long overdue event of the year was the formation of a Former Students' Association with a membership of seven hundred and correspondents in many parts of the world. The Association aims at "enabling former students to retain an interest in the affairs of the College" and as the honorary secretary is a member of the staff it may be hoped that it will help the College to retain an interest in the former students. An important source of strength for the College is the scheme of affiliation of continuation classes conducted by eight county education authorities and attended by more than seven thousand students. The Glasgow Careers Council (for Secondary Schools) co-operates with the Ministry of Labour in promoting visits of boys and girls with their teachers to various departments of the College.