EDUCATIONAL GRANTS

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26441, 7 June 1951, Page 10

EDUCATIONAL GRANTS

FULBRIGHT SCHEME FOR 1952 Twenty-three travel grants will be available for qualified <New Zealanders under the 1952 Fulbright educational exchange programme between New Zealand and the United States. This has been announced by the United States Educational Foundation in New Zealand. , , All the applicants, except school teachers, will be expected to affiliate with some institution of higher learning in the United States during the 1952-53 academic year, beginning in September, 1952, and before an award is made they will be required to obtain a scholarship or to make other arrangements for sufficient dollar funds to support them in the United States. Applications will b 6 accepted, however, from those who have a reasonable hope of complying with these requirements. The grants will cover return fares. Applications will be considered from those in the following four groups:— (a) graduate students, 12 grants; (b) primary or post-primary school teachers, four grants; (c) research scholars, four grants; (d) visiting professors, three grants. Applicants in all categories must undertake to spend an academic year in the United States. Applications will first be screened by a New Zealand selection committee and then by the board of directors of the United States Educational Foundation in New Zealand. Selection will be based on academic records, experience where applicable, personality and the extent to which the proposed field of activity fits in with the general purposes of the programme, which is based on the furthering of international understanding and goodwill. Student candidates recommended for Fulbright travel grants who have no assured dollar support will be invited by the foundation to lodge applications with the Institute of International Education, New York, a voluntary organisation which assists students to obtain scholarships at American universities. Applications, which are obtainable from the United States Edncational Foundation in New Zealand, close on July 31, 1951.