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THE Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries and the President of the Board of Education have jointly appointed a committee to advise them on all aspects of agricultural education to be provided by local education authorities, and particularly on the educational policy and methods of training to be adopted at farm institutes. The committee, which will be a permanent body, is constituted as follows: Dr. Thomas Loveday, vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol (chairman); Mr. F. Barraclough, secretary to the North Riding of Yorkshire Education Committee; Dr. J. Ewing, H.M. inspector of schools; Mrs. F. C. Jenkins, assistant director, Women's Land Army; Mr. C. Bryner Jones, formerly Welsh secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture; Mr. L. R. Missen, director of education for East Suffolk; Mr. A. E. Monks, an organizer of the National Union of Agricultural Workers now serving as labour liaison officer to the Minister; Mr. W. A. Stewart, county agricultural organizer and principal of the Northamptonshire Institute of Agriculture; Dr. G. K. Sutherland, H.M. inspector of schools; Mr. R. A. Ward, chairman of the Development and Education Committee of the National Farmers' Union; Prof. J. A. Scott Watson, Sibthorpian professor of agriculture in the University of Oxford.
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Committees on Agricultural Education. Nature 154, 12 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154012b0
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