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CHAPTER . AIMS AND CONTENTS OF EDUCATION AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

To keep pace with the recent rapid progress in science and technology, the training of future scientists and technicians and also the development of special abilities are now being undertaken by the institutions of higher education. In the United Kingdom attention has been forcused on the training of scientists and technicians and measures been taken for the increase in the number of such trained personnel since 1945. In the White Paper on Technical Education in 1956 a plan for the consolidation of technical colleges in Britain was proposed. In the U.S.S.R., the 7-year plan (starting in 1959 and ending in 1965) for doubling the number of scientists and technicians to be trained in higher education is now under way. In the United States, positive policy has been carried out to select and train capable students, and to award scholarships to such students for advanced training in science, mathematics, technology and foreign languages, both at the undergraduate and the graduate university level.