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THE correspondence which has been proceeding in the columns of NATURE under the heading “The Future of Technical Colleges” is both timely and important. Recent publications, such as the White Paper on Educational Reconstruction, and the still more recent report of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee on “Universities and Research”, show a growing awareness of the fact that if Great Britain is not to be overwhelmed by the rising tide of science, it will be necessary to mobilize all the scientific and technical ability the country can muster. We shall need all the pure scientists we can discover, a far greater number of first-class technologists, and an innumerable host of skilled technicians. In the education and training of this army of reconstruction, both the universities and the technical colleges must play a part, and the task is, quite frankly, beyond their present resources. Before public money is spent, as it must be, on increasing those resources, it is clearly desirable, in the interests of economy of both money and man-power, that' the respective functions of the universities and the technical colleges shall be clearly defined, and each of them equipped for their appropriate functions.
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THE FUTURE OF TECHNICAL COLLEGES. Nature 152, 519–520 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152519a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152519a0