Pre‐University Training by Projects

Abstract

The‘Thick Sandwich’ (1–3–1) course is growing in popularity. More and more men are going to university to read engineering with a year of practical training behind them, and this has several obvious virtues. There are, of course, various attendant drawbacks differing in their magnitude from one type of industry to another. In the heavy electrical industry the problem is that the man who has academic qualifications only as far as GCE ‘A’ level or university entrance standards is a difficult man to employ usefully in research, design or development departments and is possibly a liability when it comes to testing equipment where there is anything but the lowest of voltages.