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IN a leading article in NATURE of April 6, p. 526, attention was directed to the importance of providing adequate educational facilities for men and women in the armed forces. Evidence was available to show that, in the then period of comparative calm, there had been a regular and insistent demand for educational services from members of the Army and Air Force, and, in a different degree, the Navy. Suggestions are made to indicate how these demands might be reasonably met. An important announcement was that the Board of Education had agreed to nominate a senior officer to a liaison post between its own department and corresponding establishments in the Services. Since that time the development of the War has caused a temporary, although only partial, postponement of this and other schemes for expanding educational programmes for the fighting forces. The recent statement announcing the appointment of Mr. F. W. D. Bendall of the Board of Education to act as adviser in educational matters to Service men and women must therefore be greeted with considerable enthusiasm. It is to be hoped that with any lull in the air battles over Great Britain during the coming winter, opportunity for making use of the existing schemes that have been carefully prepared, and any others that might arise, should be freely utilized.
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Educational Facilities for the Armed Forces. Nature 146, 396 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146396a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146396a0