The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-09

Each technical and occupationa school (apprentice
ship school, technical school, and higher technical
SCHOOL, has it's own specified tas1-to train specialists
for certain category of work. whilst those graduating
from the lower technical school may pass on to the
higher technical school, Thus for instance the appren-
tceship school constitutes the basis of preliminary
training for admission the technical school, From
the technical school the graduate may be admitted to
the second year of the corresponding higher schools and
from the lower technical school to the first year of the
schools.
lied: (a Workers faculties at the higher Schools with
sole admission for workers and peasants having rec
ord of three years industrial life.
The purpose of the workers faculties train work
and peasants for admission to the higher schools.
(b) Evening technical schools for the workers, for
the purpose of giving technical and occupaonal edu
cation to workers during evening hours
(c) Training courses of various kinds, at which the
workers are given opportunities to raise their quail
fcaons. The limit for admission to the technical
and occupationa schools is 40 years.
The plans and programs of tuition for the technical
and occupatonal schools worked out by the Depart
of Education with active participation by indus
trial management organs and the trade unions, so as
adapt them to the interests of the respective lines
of industry.
These schools established by the educational
horties the basis of requests made by the
tive industries.
III. Railway Technical and Occupatonal Schools and
Their Students.
The highest technical schools for railway workers
are: the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers and
the Lenngrad Institute of Ways and Communications.
Both these schools have at present total of about
$500 students, of whom about per cent women.
AS to social status they divided as follows
Workers 40 per cent
Peasants % per cent
Children of railway officials and
other intellectual workers % per cent
In the technical schools the children of workers
sttute go per cent the remainder consisting of the chill
dren of railway employees.
Altogether in the % technical schools with their 80
departments or the various services such traffic
management road maintenance telegraph material sup
ply, etc. there 119 classes with 1856 pupils.
In the 45 occupationa schools with their 60 depart
ments there 176 classes with 5,551 pupils
The factory apprenticeship schools exist exclusively
for workers children There altogether 158 schools
of this type, with 592 classes and 16,402 pupils.
There 100 apprenticeship brigades with 2,615 ap-
prentices.
Training for young workers there are 85, with
2,444 students.
Training for adult workers there 20, with
965 adult students.
The Training of Skilled Workers On the Railway
Transport.
The training of the necessary staffs of qualified
workers on the railways is done by means of:
/. Apprenticeship schools, of which there the
railways towards the beginning Of 1925-26 1853 schools
g. Apprenticeship brigades, 1875.
3. Training courses for young workers, &C.
a. Professional (occupationa) schools 48.
s. Professional (occupatonal) courses, 191.
The method of apprenticeship schools and apprentice
ship brigades is applied in the training of the
sary skilled workers for the railway workshops There
also schools for teegraphists There also spe-
ciazed for the various occupations connected
with the railway traffic.
The period of instruction in the apprenticeship schools
is fom to years The selection of pupils is made
by special selecting commissions with the participation
of the trade union organs First preference is giver
TO children of railway workers. and only 15 per
outsiders admitted. The age of admission is be
tween ID and 16.