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AT the Conference on Science and the War Effort arranged in London recently by the Association of Scientific Workers, there were two sessions devoted to the university training of scientific workers and the training of technical personnel. These sessions, which were attended by well over a hundred people, were remarkable for the wide range of teaching activity represented among both speakers and audience. Nearly every sphere of science teaching was represented, and the speeches dealt with ordinary university and polytechnic courses, the training of State bursars, the part-time teaching of young people in factories and workshops and the special training of recruits and cadets for the Forces. The limitation of time made it impossible to discuss at any length the teaching of science in secondary schools, but it was realized that the problem of scientific education must be tackled as a whole and that the school part of this is of fundamental importance.
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THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE. Nature 149, 161–162 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149161a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149161a0