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THE relation of education to research is a simple one in most fields of scientific work, in that the universities provide both one and the other. This simplicity cannot, however, extend to the subject of aeronautics, because the cost of experimentation is so great and the organisation required so complex. In the future the universities may perhaps be equipped even for this extension of their activities, but at the present time, and for many years to come, the experimental work will in general be beyond their means. The Government, however, for its own sakej needs to continue to carry on aeronautical research, and the question naturally arises: What are to be the relations between the Government research establishments and the university teaching establishments? The Committee appointed in October, 1918, by Lord Weir to advise on this matter has now reported, and its recommendation is to merge the staffs undertaking these two classes of work. At the present time it is scarcely practicable or wise to found more than one school of aeronautics, and the Committee selects the Imperial College of Science as its home, suggesting that the staff of the school should for the most part be composed of those members of the Government research establishments who are best qualified for the work, and can be permitted to spend part of their time at the Imperial College.
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The Relationship of Education to Research in Aeronautics. Nature 105, 14–17 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105014a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105014a0