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AN Institute of Education has been established in Reading as the area training organisation for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, West Sussex and Reading. The scheme for the Institute provides for a Board of Governors drawn in equal proportions from the local education authorities in the area and from the University of Reading. The Minister of Education has appointed Sir Frank Stenton, vice-chancellor of the University, as chairman. The principal objects of the Institute are to further the training of teachers and other persons intending to engage in educational work in the area; to foster close relations between the corporate members of the Institute (at present, the University of Reading, the county councils and county borough councils in the area and the training colleges in the area, namely, Culham, Bishop Otter, Easthampstead Park and Newlands Park) ; and to establish an educational centre for the promotion of the educational interests of students and teachers and other persons professionally concerned with or interested in education in the Institute area. The Institute will be established in or near Reading, and a search for suitable accommodation has already begun ; ultimately it is hoped that the Institute will have a new building designed for the purpose. Mr. C. R. E. Gillett has been appointed director of the Institute.
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Reading Institute of Education. Nature 162, 842 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162842b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162842b0