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IF happily unemployment of graduates is less serious in Great Britain than in some other European countries, it has been sufficiently widespread to offer obstacles to the work of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning in finding occupation for displaced men of science from abroad, apart from the existence of a by no means negligible amount of wastage and misplacement of young graduates of our own universities. Indeed, the position led the University Grants Committee in its last report to suggest that the universities themselves should consider not merely the question of the appropriate number of university students in relation to the population of the country as a whole, but also that of the appropriate number for any particular university. Granting that a university should not be too preoccupied with problems of purely professional vocations for its students, it should none the less face the question whether the time has arrived, or is approaching, when additions to its numbers will tend to impair the quality of the instruction and the value of the training for life it sought to give.
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Training and Employment of University Graduates. Nature 141, 51–53 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141051a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141051a0