TRAVEL GRANTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26980, 15 January 1949, Page 6

TRAVEL GRANTS

STUDY IN AMERICA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION’S SCHEME PA WELLINGTON, Jan. 14. The United States Educational Foundation in New Zealand to-day announced the availability of awards of travel grants to New Zealand graduate students and research workers planning to undertake postgraduate study or research in American educational institutions. Although the foundation’s purpose is to foster a two-way educational exchange, its funds, derived from the sole of United States war-time surpluses in the Dominion, are in New Zealand pounds and can therefore be utilised only for the payment of round-trip trans-Pacific transportation and not for expenditure in the United States, the statement said. Candidates for these travel grants will accordingly be Required to have some means of support in the United States, whether in the form of fellowships. the financial sponsorship of friends or i-elatives, or private funds. The consideration of applications for final selection by the Board of Foreign Scholarships in Washington will be carried out by a committee of New Zealanders and Americans and will be based primarily on the candidates’ scholastic ability, personal achievement and the merit of his proposed study or research project. Servicemen will receive preference where their qualifications are equal with those of applicants without service experience. Portion of the foundation’s expenditure will be for the transportation and support of American professors, research scholars and graduate students coming to New Zealand to undertake study and research.