A third of the undergraduates who are studying at British universities are scholarship winners drawn from the working and middle classes. Their numbers have trebled in 20 years. The Lou-, don County Council offers evening edu cation costing £400,000 for fees amounting to £27.000. The amount spent on evening classes in 1910 was about £3')0.060. Scholarships to the universities given by the Board of Trade cost £70.000 a ♦year; the cost in 1919 was £IOO.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21300, 2 April 1931, Page 6
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