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A conference on the future structure and curricula of higher education in Britain was held at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on January 5–7 with the sponsorship of Nature. The report of the proceedings which follows, prepared by the staff of Nature, is intended to show the chief lines of argument and to suggest some of the problems which now call for attention.