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THE question of the training of industrial chemists, after having been dormant for some years, has again been raised, and it has now taken the more definite form of whether our universities should develop. schools of applied chemistry. Let us look at the example of the engineering industries. There has been more coherence and solidarity and more personal interest on the part of the leaders of the engineering profession with regard to technical education than has been shown by chemical manufacturers. The practical effect is that the term “technical education“ in Great Britain has become almost synonymous with training in engineering, and on the governing bodies of the newer institutions the engineering influence is predominant. The lack of active interest in the educational side of applied chemistry on the part of the manufacturers has acted, detrimentally to their own cause. The teachers, if left alone by the manufacturers, are apt to become too purely bookish, and the manufacturers, if they cut themselves adrift from the academic side of chemistry, are likely to become too narrowly practical. The recent discussions upon the desirability of the better training of industrial chemists have centred round the universities, and the technical schools and technical colleges have been passed over.
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Education and Research in Applied Chemistry 1 . Nature 80, 413–415 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080413a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/080413a0