CULTURAL RELATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 30, 5 February 1941, Page 7

CULTURAL RELATIONS

ANGLO-HELLENIC SCHEME

(Urltlsli Official V'iiclcss.) RUGBY, February 3. The closer cultural relations foreshadowed in the recent preliminary announcement of a British-Hellenic convention arc seen more clearly in details of, the convention which were issued today. In addition to the exchange of: university professors and other men of learning, modern Greek is to be regarded as ranking with other major European languages as a possible examination subject at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and London, while the study of the English language and literature will be facilitated at Athens University.

The British School of Archaeology at Athens, established in 1886, will be permitted to function in Greece, permission for the establishment of new centres being sought when desirable from the Greek Government.

Treatment equally favourable in both countries will be extended to scholars, students, and teachers in respect of residence and employment permits, and recognition of either country's degrees and diplomas will be mutual.

An interchange is to be made of students and scholars for study, particularly in relation to art and sport, for which travel and residential facilities will be arranged.

The British Council already established in Athens will have the right to establish and maintain two primary schools and one secondary school Jn Athens.

In order to apply the articles of the convention as a whole, two mixed Anglo-Hellenic commissions will be constituted, one in London and one in Athens.