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WE directed attention in our last issue (p. 825) to the withdrawal of “Everyday Science” from the list of obligatory subjects in the examination for admission to the Administrative Group of Civil Services a step which appears to us regrettable. The policy of the Civil Service Commissioners in determining the type of the questions set in the examinations in science subjects is also called in question in an article by Dr. Herbert Dingle in Time and Tide of November 16. In discussing the part played by examinations in causing the ineffectiveness of scientific training in public life, Dr. Dingle relates his experience in the preparation of questions in astronomy. This confirms us in our opinion that the place of science in these examinations is not all that it should be.
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Everyday Science in Civil Service Examinations. Nature 136, 866 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136866b0
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