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TECHNICAL COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS FOR many months past the pages of NATURE have referred to the great demands that will be made upon the industrial resources of Great Britain in post-war years and the consequent need for trained technicians and technologists to cope with the gigantic problems involved. Though the general character of the requirements of the situation have been surveyed by a variety of industrial, commercial, professional and educational bodies, it remains largely to the Board of Education to promote and later implement specific proposals for bringing about the necessary improvements in education and training schemes in order to relate them to the practical and social needs of the community in the best possible way. It is therefore gratifying to find that the recent McNair Report* not only gives a courageous and penetrating analysis of present deficiencies in the training of technical teachers (Part III, p. 108) but also advances bold suggestions for tackling what is stated to be "a comparatively new field of enquiry".
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Recruitment and Training of Teachers. Nature 153, 663–665 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153663a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153663a0