Natural science in education / being the report of The Committee on the Position of Natural Science in the Educational System of Great Britain.

Date:
1918
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Credit: Natural science in education / being the report of The Committee on the Position of Natural Science in the Educational System of Great Britain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    statements of facts and of opinion, either collective or individual, on a number of points relating to the conditions of science teaching of students of undergraduate age. We thought it specially important to ascertain the views of the Mathematical Association as to the relations between the teaching of mathematics and science, and have to thank them for a very helpful Memorandum. Special enquiries were made of a number of leading firms engaged in engineer- ing and the chemical industry. Owing to war conditions the response was not as great as could have been wished, but 17 engineering firms and 18 chemical firms replied to our questions. We have devoted our attention in the first instance, and indeed in the main, to the educational system in England and have dealt in separate sections with the conditions special to Scotland and Wales. In the course of our deliberations we have conferred with the Committee appointed to enquire into the position of Modern Languages in the Educational System, and have had an opportunity of seeing their draft Report. We wish to put on record the great assistance we have received in our work from the wide knowledge of education possessed by our Secretary, Mr. F. B. Stead, and to express our high appreciation of the zeal and efficiency with which he has discharged his duties.