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The United Kingdom is the principal ally of the United States in world affairs. Her political effectiveness, military potential and economic welfare – all of direct concern to this country – are now largely dependent on her technological competence. This report presents a general review of Britain’s scientific and engineering manpower – its postwar strengths and deficiencies, the present supply, the expected future demand, and the steps being taken or planned to meet this demand, including data from the latest manpower survey of 1959, and 1962 and 1966 projections of need.
The British see the challenge of the manpower problem as a question not merely of success but of survival. In the words of an anonymous British expert, “the price of survival is to change our culture.”
Great Britain has only one-third as many pure scientists as the United States in absolute numbers, but approximately the same proportion on a population basis. But she is much less well supplied with engineers and highly qualified technologists. As Britain’s population is not growing – the population of the United States has doubled in the last fifty years – a many-faceted program has been launched for making a technical education available to a larger proportion of her young people.
One of the most valuable features of this stud is a penetrating account of the British educational system and of some of the social and economic factors affecting the manpower situation. Recent developments in the British educational system will be of special interest to those concerned with the problems of American education.
Another striking contrast is in the relation of fundamental and applied research in the two nations: Great Britain employs twice as many scientists in education as we do, and only a third as many in industry as we do. While the British Government must therefore concern itself with promoting applied research and strengthening the ties between industry and science by supporting industrial research associations, our government, through the National Science Foundation, puts primary emphasis on encouraging fundamental science in the colleges and universities.
This study, sponsored by the President’s Committee on Scientists and Engineers, constitutes a model fro periodic assessment of the free world’s needs and resources.
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Title: Britain’s Scientific and Technological Manpower
Author: George Louis Payne
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1960
ISBN 0804761752
Contents
PREFACE 3
THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND 11
TECHNICAL MANPOWER AND ITS EMPLOYMENT IN 27
CHAPTER HI CURRENT AND EXPECTED DEMAND FOR SCIENTISTS 65
THE SECONDARY SCHOOLS 108
THE UNIVERSITIES 151
NONUNIVERSITY CHANNELS TO A TECHNICAL EDUCA 192
CHAPTER VH EXPANSION OF EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES 243
EXPANSION OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES 302
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 335
TECHNOLOGICAL EXPANSION AND THE SOCIAL SCENE 367
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 400
NOTES ON AMERICAN MANPOWER STATISTICS 425
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS 446
INDEX 457
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