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THE leading article entitled “Ottawa and After”, in NATURE of October 8, 1932, concludes with an interesting comment on higher education in the Dominions. I can speak with first-hand knowledge of conditions in New Zealand and Australia, and feel that there is a greater fundamental difficulty than the existence of a superior climate which is more conducive to outdoor life. The difficulty is an Imperial one. The Empire is centripetal, not centrifugal, and the tendency is to look to England as the only place where the best may be encountered, or the best work carried on. This influences educational outlook from the secondary schools to the universities, and the public, despite crudely nationalistic tendencies on the parts of some lesser journals, sees greener pastures in all branches of culture, in distant Albion.
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HICKS, C. Scientific Centralisation in the British Empire. Nature 131, 397 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131397a0
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