BURSARIES FOR STUDENTS

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25346, 20 November 1947, Page 5

BURSARIES FOR STUDENTS

STUDY IN DOMINION BY FOREIGN NATIONALS

(P.A.) WELLINGTON, November 11. The Government has agreed to make available up to £15,000, spread over five years, to provide in New Zealand fellowships and bursaries for students from war devastated countries. Announcing this to-day the Minister of Education (Mr T. H. McCombs) said that the grant would be part of New Zealand’s contribution to the educational reconstruction and rehabilitation scheme sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation. "The Government, in making the grant, has three types of persons in mind,” said Mr McCombs. “These are advanced students, for whom postgraduate study facilities are not available in their own countries; second, undergraduates who would benefit „by undertaking a full university course in this country: third, those requiring training in the practical techniques of social welfare work. “In such countries as China, for example, the absence of a knowledge of even the most elementary rules of infant care and the prevention of disease is a cause of untold misery.” The first object of the scheme was to assist in the reconstruction of devastated countries, but it should also foster international understanding. New Zealand students would gain from contact with students from other countries. It was realised that many departments of the university colleges were already overcrowded, but the number of overseas students in any one college would be small.