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A LTHOUGH the report of the Committee on Scientific Man-Power (see p. 794 of this issue) contains little that was not generally known to men of science themselves and, to organisations responsible for training scientific workers or employing them in considerable numbers, the composition of this authoritative Committee lends weight to suggestions that have been freely canvassed in many quarters during the last few years. That many of its findings have already found expression-notably in a series of articles in the Economist last February-is indeed all to the good, and indicates how closely the recommendations of this report are in line with the trend of informed opinion. To the extent that the ground has in this way been so well prepared, it should be the easier to secure the action necessary to meet the basic challenge thrown down by this report to double the capacity of British universities, alike in respect of teaching and of research, within a decade. In detail some of its proposals are likely to encounter opposition, but the close reasoning of this lucid report should facilitate that task of educating opinion generally which will be required to secure the formulation and enactment of an appropriate policy.
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THE UNIVERSITIES AND SCIENTIFIC MAN-POWER. Nature 157, 781–783 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157781a0
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