SOLDIER STUDENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23289, 27 August 1945, Page 6

SOLDIER STUDENTS

Overseas Bursaries Subjects varying from music to tobacco culture are covered in the 21 overseas educational bursaries granted by the Rehabilitation Board during July to ex-servicemen and women, says the monthly review of the Rehabilitation Department. This brought the total of such bursaries awarded to 66. Intended mainly to meet the needs of post-graduate ex-servicemen students, these bursaries are to a value of £250 a year sterling in whatever country the course of study is taken. One of the new bursars is going to England for post-graduate surgical work at a London hospital with a view to becoming an F.R.C.S. Another will specialise in medicine at various hospitals in England and at the Royal College of Physicians. London, while another will study lor his Diploma of Anaesthetics at Edinburgh University, the Nuffield Institute, and the Royal College of Surgeons. Two of the exservicemen will study theology in the United Kingdom, and another will take his degree of Bachelor of Divinity at London University. Two others will study music, at the Sydney Conservatoriiim. One man is going to the Slade School of Art. London, for a course in sculpture. Speech therapy is the subject being taken at London University by anol.her student, while another serviceman will study at the London Refraction Hospital for the honours examinations of the British Optical Association.