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The National Foundry College has been established and its board of governors nominated by the Minister of Education. The College will be housed in, and work closely in conjunction with, the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College. The board of governors is charged with the responsibility for providing national facilities for foundry education and research, in the form of full-time courses, vacation courses, refresher courses, and the like, and also for providing regional and local facilities for full-time, part-time day and evening courses, to cover the whole range of foundry education. Its first task will be the re-establishment of the full-time diploma course which was the main feature of the predecessor of the College, the British Foundry School, during 1935–39. This course will normally run for an academic year, and the first session opens on January 5. The course will cover the whole of the foundry industry, ferrous and non-ferrous, including grey, white and chilled iron castings, malleable castings, steel castings, and castings in non-ferrous metals, such as alloys of copper, tin, zinc, nickel, aluminium and magnesium. The diploma awarded to successful students will be endorsed by the Ministry of Education. There is no upper ago limit for admission; a minimum of one year's practical experience in at least one branch of the industry will be required, together with a Higher National Certificate or a university degree, preferably in metallurgy or engineering, or a grade of membership obtained by examination of a professional institution in engineering, metallurgy or chemistry. Mr. J. Bamford, who was in charge of the British Foundry School during 1935–39, and who has since held important managerial appointments in the industry, has been appointed head of the National Foundry College.
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National Foundry College. Nature 160, 705 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160705c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/160705c0