Crisis in Biology An Examination of the Deficiencies in the Current Pattern of Expansion in Biological Education

Higher education in biology: British experience in the 1960s and 1970s, with some international comparisons

“…1 For details of how these figures are determined see text. 2 Included here are Departments of Biochemistry, Physiology, Pharmacy, Microbiology etc.…”

“…The differences, particularly in 1960, although clearly they are not the sort of figures which warrant much statistical treatment, Source: Commonwealth Universities Yearbooks. 1 The numbers of major university institutions are given, i.e. the single subject institutions are not included in the denominator, although they are in the numerator.…”

New approaches to restructuring school biology

“…Inherited disciplinary boundaries and some of the traditional subject matter are hard to justify, especially in comparison with other related sciences, with the demands of society and the needs of the pupils. As a result, new material for teaching has been consistently developed and tested, and old subject matter is being adapted in the course of curriculum development (L'Héritier and Rizet, 1960;Schwab, 1964;Dyer, 1967;Kelly, 1967;Gohau, 1971).…”