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UNTIL comparatively recently biology might well be said to have been the ‘Cinderella’ of the sciences so far as primary and secondary education in Great Britain were concerned. Over a period of about ten years, however, the subject has become recognized more and more as of vast cultural and academic importance. Consequently it is finding its place in many schools where it was hitherto completely ignored and in all cases the number of students studying biology has increased. This is well exemplified in the number which take the subject in the School Certificate, though even to this day the percentage is far too low. During 1940 in the School Certificate 22 per cent took biology and 19 per cent General Science; in the Higher School Certificate only 7 per cent took biology.
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HUMAN BIOLOGY IN EDUCATION. Nature 148, 787–789 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148787a0
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