An additional 1,500 Jewish youths will be accepted this Fall in the various technical and professional schools of Ukrainia to be qualified there as specialists for Soviet industry. This is the substance of a decision adopted today by the Ukrainian government.
As a result of this decision the Ukrainian labor department will issue instructions to all of its branches to open a number of new technical courses for Jewish youth in addition to those now existing. These new courses will accept Jewish students from 16 to 18 whose parents have voting rights.
Each student will be granted eighteen roubles a month for assistance from the government during the period of study. The new courses will be short terms but despite that, the students will have a course equivalent to the regular four year course in the technical college. Upon completing their training they will be sent as specialists to factories.
Because there are no housing facilities for these new students the Agro-Joint is expected to cooperate with the Ukrainian government to build dormitories for them with Agro-Joint funds.
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