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ix. shipping and navigation.
Supervisory Board to conduct examinations and to assist in the execution
of certain work in the engineers departments. A board consisting of five,
or seven members is appointed for each school by the local town council;
the director is appointed by the Government and the regular and
extra teachers by the Supervisory Board. The provisions of the law
regarding the right of civil servants to a pension apply to the pensioning of
directors and regular teachers. The teaching staff is paid from State
funds, but the school premises and dwellings for the directors are found
by the respective communes. Other expenses are covered by State grants
and by the pupils’ fees, which vary from 8 to 30 kronor.
A course preparatory to passing the navigation teacher’s examination, which
is required of directors and regular teachers in the navigation department, is
arranged every other year at Stockholm, at the beginning of September. The
course comprises mathematics, physics, mechanics, theory of deviation, nautical
meteorology, theoretical and practical astronomy, terrestrial and astronomical
navigation. Regular teachers in the engineers department must have gone
through the department for machine construction and mechanical technology of
the Technical High School, or some other equivalent course.
Pupils in the mates class at the navigation school must have served on deck
on a sailing vessel and steamer in a certain trade for 42 months, and pupils in
the skippers class for 36 months. Pupils in the second engineers class must
have served as assistant to the engineer on a steamship and as machine and
boiler workman in a mechanical work for a total of 48 months, and pupils in
the 3rd engineers class for 30 months. These pupils must pass an entrance
examination in Swedish and arithmetic, while pupils in the mates class must
also pass in algebra and geography. Pupils in the masters class must possess a.
mate’s certificate, while pupils in the first engineers class must have obtained
an engineer’s certificate of the second class and have subsequently served for
24 months as engineer on a steamship in a certain trade. All pupils must
possess a medical certificate that they have good hearing, while pupds in the
navigation department must also possess a certificate that their sight is good
and that they are not colour blind.
The instruction begins at the various schools, in the mates classes on the
1st and 15th of August and on the 1st of September, in the second engineers
classes on the 1st and 15th of August, in the first engineers classes on the 1st
and 15th of September, in the masters classes on the 1st and 15th of
September and on the 1st of October, in the skippers and 3rd engineers classes on
the 7th of January.
The courses extend, in the mates class over about 9 months, in the
masters and second engineers class 8 months, in the first engineers class 7 months,
in the skippers and 3rd engineers class 3 months.
The instruction comprises, in the masters class: mathematics, physics,
mechanics, navigation, shipbuilding, applied mechanics, seamanship, the Swedish and
English languages, law, hygiene and bandaging; in the first engineers class:
physics, mechanics, applied mechanics, machine drawing, electricity, the Swedish
and English languages, hygiene and bandaging. In the other classes certain of
these subjects are omitted.
The examinations are partly written and partly oral. Papers are set for
the former by the inspector, with the assistance of the above-mentioned experts,
as far as the first and second engineers classes are concerned. In order to
obtain the right to undergo the oral examination all pupils must have passed
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