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IN an address to the London Section of the British Association of Chemists on March 4, Dr. T. J. Drakeley, principal of the Northern Polytechnic, made a strong plea for a recognized system of technical education in Britain on an equal footing with more academic subjects. He attributed the industrial decline of Great Britain—instanced by the dyestuffs and coke industries—to the lack of such a system of technical training, in contrast to the highly developed system of technical high schools on the Continent, such as those at Delft, Zurich, Stockholm and Charlottenburg. He criticized the report of the Chemistry Education Advisory Board for stipulating that the study of a branch of applied chemistry should always be preceded by a three-year degree course in pure science. He maintained it is impossible to justify the view that the metal chemist and the rubber chemist should have the same basic training. It is only on the basis of a trained personnel that the chemical industries can regain world markets, revive British prestige and pass into a prosperous period of progress.
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Training for the Chemical Industries. Nature 153, 431 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153431c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153431c0