NORTH BORNEO NEWS & SABAH TIMES (Friday, November 30, 1962) - JESSELTON, Thurs - North Borneo's Senior Co-operative Assistant, Mr J.B. Willie, now in his first session at the Co-operative College, Loughborough, England, is one of 31 students from overseas in a total of 97 sessional student attending the College this year – the largest number so far.
Mr Willie, who left Jesselton two months ago on an International Labour Organisation Fellowship, is the first North Borneo student at the College.
He is finding the course, which includes economies, principles of law, survey of co-operative organisation, control and organisation of co-operative societies, book-keeping, accounts and audit, statistics, and modern economic and political history, somewhat difficult but he is sure he will win though the struggle to keep up with the other students most of whom are UK. co-operation managers or trainee managers with higher academic qualifications.
Living in one of the new wings of the college, which has spacious grounds, Mr Willie enjoys life in spite of the hard work, and takes part in several social activities of the college. The other morning he was amazed to look out of his window and see that everything was a sparkling white. He was seeing snow for the first time. He was so excited, he writes, that he ran out into it forgetting his breakfast. He was not the only student to be fascinated by the snow: there were several others among the students from Africa, Malaya, Hong Kong and other Commonwealth countries.
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when he was finished the Course at the end of next June, Mr Willie's Fellowship will take him on a tour of the Continent for further training, including a visit to the International Labour Organisation Headquarters in Geneva, before he returns to North Borneo next August.