Abstract
IN announcing in the House of Commons on July 13, 1943, the appointment of two commissions to report on higher education in the British Colonies, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Col. Oliver Stanley, said that he regarded educational advance and economic development as the twin pillars upon which any sound scheme of political responsibility must be based. If the goal of Colonial self-government was to be achieved, Colonial universities and colleges would have to play an immense part in that development. They would, first of all, have to meet the enormously increased need for trained professional workers which growing social and economic services would necessitate, providing the agriculturists, the engineers, the medical men, the teachers, the veterinary surgeons, and the specialists and technicians which the approach to higher standards of life entailed. They would be required to carry out an immense amount of research, and, finally, they would have a great extra-mural task of stimulating general progress throughout the areas of which they were centres, and encouraging the production of teachers from those who gain their knowledge and experience from their daily life.
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Colonial Universities and their Functions*. Nature 156, 345–347 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156345a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/156345a0