Education and the Colonies

Abstract

PROF. A. V. HILL, in the debate on Colonial affairs in the House of Commons, has given his powerful aid to recent pleas for the active support and co-operation of the universities of the British Empire in the advance of Colonial education. He recalls the opportunity for their active participation in the training of the body of teachers and scientific and professional men that the Colonial peoples so greatly need, and must provide as rapidly as possible from their own ranks He suggests not only taking a mission-with a harmonium rather than a big drum-around the universities to enlist their active contribution, but also the establishment of a central organization of some kind to watch over the needs of the higher education of Colonial peoples and to bring their needs and the opportunities these offer continually to the notice of schools, universities and learned societies at home.