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DURING the past year or so signs have not been wanting that the unfortunate separation between teaching and examining, which has so often been deplored, is likely, before very long, to be either mended or-ended. And we think that both the representatives of the Universities and the subcommittee of the Public School Science Masters' Association are to be congratulated on the new departures that were made at Cambridge on Saturday, February 7, and Oxford on Saturday, February 14, when they met at conferences summoned by the Vice-Chancellors of the respective Universities, to consider the question of entrance scholarships in the natural sciences given at the several colleges in Oxford and Cambridge, from the point of view of the teaching of science in public schools. For, though the representatives of the Universities did not accept all the proposals brought forward, they did accept a large proportion of the chief of them, as, for example, the proposal to limit the number of chief science subjects offered by any candidate to two, and another requiring all candidates offering geology, or biological subjects to show an acquaintance with the elements of chemistry and physics, and thus a real beginning in the direction of greater cooperation was made.
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Recent Conferences Between Science Masters and Examiners . Nature 67, 419–420 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067419b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/067419b0