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IN every government department, much of the work dealt with to-day involves the consideration of problems which are of technical character, and presents, in consequnce, the need for close collaboration on the part of officers belonging to the administrative, financial, and technical branches to the department. In view of the importance and, in many instances, the coplexity of the technical aspects of these problems, not only is it essential that the careers offered in the technical branches of the Civil Service shall be such as to attract men of the highest standard of qualifications, but it is also necessary that the status accorded to the technical officers shall in every way be equivalent to that of the administrative officers with whom they are required to co-operate, in order that their position in the official hierarchy may correspond with the magnitude of their responsibilities, and thus effectively ensure that due weight may be given to their proposals.
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The Technical Expert in the Civil Service. Nature 120, 829–832 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120829a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/120829a0