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IT is well established that occupational attitudes can be shaped by educational experiences1, but comparatively little is known about the specific effects of a British university education. Becker et al.2,3 have differentiated the effects of higher vocational and non-vocational education in the United States. They found attitude changes to occur, but whereas, in the former, students came to see themselves as members of their prospective professions, in the latter, they tended to identify with their subjects. Various official reports4,5 in recent years have taken the view that university education in Britain chiefly promotes identification of the second kind.
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SMITHERS, A., TOOMEY, D. & MELROSE, M. Occupational Orientations at Bradford and Warwick Universities. Nature 228, 1113–1114 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/2281113a0
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