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The Secretary of State for Air has announced that the Air Council has decided to set up an Educational Advisory Council for the Royal Air Force with the following terms of reference: βTo keep under review the educational policy for the Royal Air Force and to advise the Secretary of State for Air on such matters connected with education in the Royal Air Force as they think fit and upon any educational questions referred to them by him.β The following will, in addition to representatives of the Ministry of Education, the Scottish Education Department, and the Ministry of Labour and National Service, serve on the Council: Dr. Keith A. H. Murray, rector, Lincoln College, Oxford (chairman); Mr. Harold E. Clay, president, Workers' Educational Association; Miss M. C. Glasgow, secretary-general, Arts Council of Great Britain; Mr. Ronald Gould, general secretary, National Union of Teachers; Miss V. Holmes, member of the Council of the Women's Employment Federation; Mr. J. C. Jones, director of education, the Polytechnic, Regent Street, London; Air Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, R.A.F. (retired); Mr. H. Morris, chief education officer, Cambridgeshire; Mr. J. H. Nicholson, principal, University College, Hull; Dr. D. R. Pye, provost, University College, London; Mr. W. E. Williams, director, Bureau of Current Affairs; Mr. J. F. Wolfenden, headmaster, Shrewsbury School.
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Education in the Royal Air Force. Nature 160, 253 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160253a0
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