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AMONG the specific issues of policy on which the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy was asked to make recommendations shortly after its first meeting in March 1947 were the arrangements for securing an adequate flow of scientific man-power to meet the needs both of Government and of industry. One section of the Advisory Council's first annual report deals with this problem in some detail, and may well be regarded as the most important section of the report. Since the Barlow Committee recommended in May 1946 that the output of scientific workers should be doubled so as to provide about five thousand every year, it has become apparent that attainment of this expansion within the immediate future is improbable, if not impracticable under present conditions. Furthermore, while on one hand the desirability of an expansion at the recommended rate has been challenged on the ground of the probability of the supply exceeding demand, on the other, fears have been expressed that too large a proportion of the available new scientific talent is being attracted to the Government services and that industry is not obtaining the recruits it requires.
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Scientific and Technical Man-Power in Britain. Nature 162, 469–472 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162469a0
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