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THE issue by the Board of Education of the pamphlet before us is opportune, having regard to the development of secondary schools now being taken in hand. The report expresses the views of five of H.M. Inspectors and deals more particularly with observations in 39 boys' schools, mostly urban. As a rule, the schools contained more than 400 pupils and had Advanced Courses; high value is rightly attributed to the institution of these courses, which have brought about improvements in apparatus and equipment— including libraries—and, best of all, secured more highly qualified teachers. Throughout the report, references appear to the primary need for securing teachers of sufficiently wide knowledge, breadth of interest, and business capacity in management of the science side of a school in all its details, financial and technical as well as professional. The science master must be competent to design and revise syllabuses, to draft requisitions, to organise the economical use and repair of apparatus. It is suggested that university training departments should teach laboratory management, the need of which is even greater among science mistresses than with men.
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Science in Boys' Schools: The Administrative Aspect. Nature 116, 37–38 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116037a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/116037a0