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IN the past, an important source of British influence and prestige has been the large number of British engineers occupying responsible positions in all parts of the world. One serious result of the many changes in world conditions since the Great War is that the position of the British engineer abroad is no longer what it was. The development of technical education in the Dominions and in India now enables these countries to dispense almost entirely with engineers from Great Britain to undertake ordinary engineering work, and from similar and other causes, including nationalistic pride, the openings in the United States, South America, Egypt and other States have been very greatly restricted. Young Argentine engineers, educated in Europe, now occupy responsible positions in their own country, which is developing very rapidly on the industrial side. In the Argentine, also, no engineer is allowed to practise on his own account unless he has graduated in, or has had his foreign qualifications revalidated by, an Argentine university: for this a very high fee is charged.
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British Engineers Abroad and their Prospects. Nature 139, 563–564 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139563a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139563a0