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THE kind of education received and the subjects studied by future civil servants must have a great and far-reaching effect upon the influence exerted by the public departments which administer the multitudinous and diverse affairs of our scattered Empire. The methods adopted for the selection of such officers must, therefore, be wisely chosen, and, in any examinations designed to facilitate the process of discrimination between men offering themselves for these positions, the subjects in which candidates are tested must be those appropriately related to the work of the department in which successful candidates will be employed, and, at the same time, those most likely to test essential fitness for public work. These and similar principles have been widely canvassed recently both in public addresses and in the Press. Certain changes in the examinations for the selection of Foreign Office clerks and attaches in the Diplomatic Service are to be introduced, and the new regulations have not met with universal approval. It will assist clearness of thought first to compare briefly the existing regulations for -the appointments concerned with those shortly to come into force.
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Science in Examinations for the Higher Civil Service . Nature 75, 260–261 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/075260b0
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