Service Not Working

A general depression seems to have settled over the Student Employment Service. Gill Le Fort, the Student Employment Officer reports that very few students used the Service though the advertising of the fact that it was available seemed adequate enough. It would appear that most students prefer to find their own vacation jobs, if that is so then, as Miss Le Fort says, it is hardly worth all the trouble that is taken in filing all the jobs.

To be sure none of the jobs offering were particularly interesting and there were very few with decent wages, especially for women. While men can, if they are prepared to work for it, earn as much as £30 a week, it is impossible for girls to earn more than, about £15 a week even by working overtime in factories.

It seems likely that the entire situation is a vicious circle brought about by that dark shadow in 'Varsity life, student apathy, as much as anything else. Probably we have no-one to blame for the present situation but ourselves and it seems likely that unless the College proves a more fruitful source of labour it will got even worse.