§ MR. FAWCETTasked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether the gentlemen who may succeed in passing the recent preliminary examination connected with the Indian Engineering College at Cooper's Hill will be permitted to continue their education in any manner and place they please; and, whether they will, when they present themselves for the final examination for appointments to the Indian Engineering Service, compete on equal terms with the gentlemen who may pursue their studies at Cooper's Hill College?
MR. GRANT DUFFSir, the competitive examination lately held has been for admission to the Civil Engineering College at Cooper's Hill. Candidates who, having obtained admission to the College at this competition, do not wish to enter the College, will not 1001 be required to do so. As regards the second Question, students who, having entered the Cooper's Hill College, subsequently quality for the public service, are guaranteed appointments in it, and persons who qualify for the public service without going through the College will also be guaranteed appointments. The two classes will not compete with each other; but the standard of qualification will be the same in each case.
§ MR. FAWCETTasked, Whether he understood that no difference would be made between other candidates and the students at Cooper's Hill as to the principles of examination?