There will be a large and immediate demand for young
graduates in all the professions recruited through the universities. Until this demand can be met the departments of State and all the secondary schools will be seriously embarrassed. Many civil servants, for example, have been overworked, without any respite, at least since 1936 or 1937 ; they cannot continue at the same pressure for another four or five years. At the same time there will be a large influx of men and women into the universities above the normal annual " intake," even if this intake is reduced, as is almost certain, by the continuance of military service. The influx will include not only all those whose studies have been interrupted or shortened by the war, but also many others who would not normally have taken a university course but are now beyond the age of " direct entry " into a profession. As in 1918-19, this latter category may claim with justice the chance of a university training.
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