AWARD OF BURSARIES

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 40, 15 August 1930, Page 11

AWARD OF BURSARIES

REVISION NEEDED

Discussing the question of State financial assistance for deserving students desiring to proceed to higher education, the Committee states that it cannot help feeling that many of the recipients of the bursaries arc tho children of parents whose position is such that State aid is neither needed nor warranted — parents who are well able to provide for tho higher education of their own families.

Every case should be considered on its own merits and the whole scheme should be administered in as liberal and sympathetic a spirit as is consistent with due regard for national as well as individual interests.

It is recommended: —

That the present system of awarding university and -other bursaries and allowances for higher education, including training college studentships, bo revised; and that the bursary system already provided for in the report be supplemented by the institution of a system of State financial assistance- to deserving students by way of either straight-out grants, or loans, with or without interest, upon such repayment terms as may bo deemed advisable, according to the special circumstances involved; each application for assistance to be endorsed with the recommendation of the Superintendent of Education of the district in which the applicant resides, or of the Dean of the faculty within which tho student is pursuing his Btudies, and to be considered upon its own merits.