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OUR leading article this week deplores the removal from examinations for higher administrative posts of the Civil Service of the compulsory subject “Everyday Science”. In this connexion, Sir Arnold Wilson put a question in the House of, Commons asking the Secretary to the Treasury “whether he is aware that the Civil Service Commissioners have eliminated the subject of everyday science, which has been one of the obligatory subjects for competitive examinations for the administrative group of Government service, from next year's examinations; and whether, before taking this decision, the Civil Service Commissioners consulted any society or body representing educational and scientific interests”. The reply given on December 16 by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury was as follows: “The answer to both parts of the question is in the negative.” The curtness of the reply borders almost on discourtesy to the scientific and educational bodies concerned; and we trust that the matter will not be left in the present unsatisfactory position.
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“Everyday Science” and the Civil Service Commissioners. Nature 136, 984 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136984d0
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