SKILLED SCIENTISTS
BRITISH POST-WAR NEED UNIVERSITY TRAINEES (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April lL A brilliant team of scientific workers has kept Britain ahead of the enemy in the vital radio field of war, (he Minister of Aircraft Production, Sir Stafford Cripps, told a convention of University radio teachers. Sir Stafford Cripps stressed the need for high technical education in post-war Britain. The degree to which skilled scientists and technicians would be necessary in every walk cf life would be very different Bom that demanded in the immediate pre-war years. The percentage of highly skilled persons in both the radio'and aircraft industries would be much greater and, if Britain was to make a full contribution to world production and progress, she would have to provide a far greater output of university trained scientists than ever she had done.
Sir Stafford Cripps said that the United States was spending five to six times as much on university students as Britain. If Britain wanted to survive in the modern world, she must produce far more university trained men and women,
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21068, 13 April 1943, Page 3
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