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THE Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Imperial Forestry Education appointed to prepare a scheme for giving effect to the resolutions of the British Empire Forestry Conference of 1920 with regard to a central institution for training forest officers has just been issued (Cmd. 1166, H.M. Stationery Office, 2d.). Keeping in view the decision of the conference that the future higher training in forestry should take place at a single central institution, the Committee recognises that the main object to be aimed at in the training of forest officers is to turn out men fully equipped with theoretical and practical knowledge, with minds broadened by education, and with capacity, strengthened by practical experience in forest work, to direct men and operations. It considers that it would be a retrograde course to interfere with the work already done by universities in establishing and maintaining courses of training in forestry, and seeks rather to co-ordinate all these courses, to bring them up to a common level, and to utilise them as a preliminary to a higher course of training at one centre.
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Imperial Forestry Education. Nature 107, 315–316 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107315b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/107315b0