§ SIR GILBERT PARKER (Gravesend)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether it is held as necessary by the Colonial Office that candidates for positions in the Civil Service in East Africa must have a university education; and whether retrenched civil servants from the Transvaal applying for a position in East Africa or Nigeria, have received no encouragement because they did not possess a university training.
§ MR. CHURCHILLIt is not essential that candidates for the East African Civil Service should have had a university education, but a university degree is one of the qualifications which is taken into account in determining the respective merits of candidates. It is not the case that retrenched civil servants from the Transvaal have been discouraged on the ground suggested.