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THE Air Council has now approved the formation of an Education Branch of the Royal Air Force in place of the civilian Educational Service that has existed hitherto. Education officers will now become part of the Royal Air Force itself, instead of being members of a civilian auxiliary service. The R.A.F. Education Branch, which will consist of commissioned officers only, will be constituted on the same broad lines as other branches of the Royal Air Force. The Branch will be organised on a predominantly short-service basis, provision being made for a percentage of short-service officers to be granted permanent commissions. Vacancies in the permanent cadre will normally be filled from the ranks of short-service officers, but officers with qualifications of outstanding value to the R.A.F. may exceptionally be appointed direct to permanent commissions. The intention is that officers should be appointed to short-service commissions, for a period of five years on the active list followed by four years on the reserve, and that they will enter at an average age of twenty-five in the rank of flying officer, normally after having had some civil teaching experience.
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Education in the Royal Air Force. Nature 158, 19 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158019b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/158019b0