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- Title
Co-education.
- Authors
LITTLE, E. GRAHAM
- Abstract
IN NATURE of April 13, I note an article which seems to me to maintain the thesis that co-education in the medical schools of London is undesirable because its prevalence would interfere with the efficiency and success of the London School of Medicine for Women. I would suggest that your brief against co-education is carried considerably farther than the highest authorities at the London School of Medicine for Women really desire, if one may judge from a letter to the Nation and Athenœum. written by Sir Francis Acland, the chairman of that School, dated April 9. In that letter Sir Francis expresses a pained surprise at my suggestion that the London School of Medicine for Women objects to co-education. He declares: 'All the evidence given by the School before the Committee' (that is, the recent University Committee) 'was in favour of co-educational facilities, and we have always welcomed every extension of it'. The 'quota' system, which is condemned in NATURE, was first suggested by the Professorial Board of University College in 1915, since which date University College Hospital has taken a quota of twelve female students annually, and the system has worked with complete success.
- Publication
Nature, 1929, Vol 123, Issue 3106, p715
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/123715a0