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PLANS which are in train or which have already been carried out for the setting up of university colleges in the West Indies, at Singapore, at Ibadan, Nigeria, and in the Gold Coast, as well as for the extension of Makerere College, Uganda, give point to the parallel discussions which have been going on with regard to the content and outlook of the curriculum which should be offered in these centres of higher education for Colonial people. It has been generally agreed that subjects contributing directly to human welfare should receive greater attention than has been the case in the more ancient seats of learning in Britain ; it has also been generally agreed that the subjects offered should form part of some concerted scheme. With such ends in view Dr. E. B. Edney makes out a case for the setting up in Colonial universities of single departments of biology instead of separate ones for botany and zoology1.
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Biology and Human Affairs, 13, 111 (1948). (British Social Hygiene Council (Inc.), Tavistock House North, London, W.C.1.)
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Biology in Colonial Universities. Nature 161, 506–507 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161506a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161506a0