Excerpt from The Education and Status of Civil Engineers, in the United Kingdom and in Foreign Countries
The Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, in issuing this volume on the Training and Status of Civil Engineers in the United Kingdom and in Foreign Countries, desire to express, on behalf of the Institution, their cordial thanks for the trouble taken by various correspondents in so fully responding to their inquiry, and for the ready courtesy with which the information so supplied has been in every case communicated.
A few years ago attention was called to the state of technical education in this country, which, it was stated, had been recently shown to be so much inferior to that in other European states as to threaten seriously the industrial interests of Great Britain. The subject was taken up by the Government, and by various public bodies, and much information respecting it was collected and put on record.
The Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers felt it their duty to interest themselves in that part of the inquiry which bore upon their own profession. During the sessions of 1867 and 1868 suggestions had been made to them with a view to their taking steps for promoting and encouraging the theoretical education of engineering students; and after considering the subject maturely, they resolved that it would be highly desirable in the first instance to obtain, from the most direct and authoritative sources, full information as to the system adopted for the education and technical training of Engineers, and generally as to the status of members of the profession, in various foreign countries where this profession had assumed an important position.
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