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THE Foundation for Educational Research, recently setup in association with the University of London Institute of Education, owes its origin to an offer of 10,000 dollars from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This was made to encourage a 'carryover' of interest in research from the work done under the directorship of Sir Philip Hartog by the English Committee of the Carnegie International Examinations Enquiry. The conditions attached to the offer were that the money would be paid over as equal amounts were subscribed in England, and that the fund should be administered by the Institute of Education. A generous grant of £1,000 from the Leverhulme Trustees thus made the sum of £2,000 available. As soon as conditions permitted, the Institute constituted an advisory council, and this body urged a considerable expansion of the original scheme so as to provide for a period of at least five years of systematic work. This expansion is now being put into effect with good hopes of wide support. The intention is that the present organization shall merge itself into a permanent national organization as soon as that stage can be reached. The first piece of work to be undertaken is a programme of researches designed to arrive at trustworthy diagnostic techniques for the 'sorting' of the young adolescent population which will be necessary in carrying into effect the White Paper proposals for post-primary education in Great Britain.
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Foundation for Educational Research. Nature 152, 717 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152717a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/152717a0