Experimentation in applied science courses ... 3

Periods spent in various industries are essential in all applied science courses, and enable the student to keep his academic studies, especially experimentation, in perspective. The type of sandwich course consisting of six-monthly periods spent alternately in college and industry for three years followed by a final year completely in college provides the wisest combination of industrial training and academic studies. This sandwich course is a headache for administrators but offers the students a very wide range of experience; the scheme also permits two end-on streams per year to be accommodated by our universities, so enabling existing academic facilities to be used more efficiently, as well as producing an even demand on industrial training facilities (Probert, 1964).