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Otago University, six by students of Victoria University College, and three by students of Canterbury College. The candidates for National Research Scholarships are not numerous. Up to the present eighteen scholarships have been awarded, no award being made in 1919. One scholarship was in active operation at the Otago University, the subject of research being New Zealand grasses. Kitchener' Memorial Scholarship. —A Kitchener Memorial Scholarship has recently been instituted, a gentleman donating £1,000 for the purpose. To this sum other private subscriptions of £468 were added, the Government subsidizing the latter amount. The scholarship (of £50 per annum) is awarded on the results of the Senior National Scholarship Examination for secondary-school pupils, and is intended for boys, being the sons of members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who have taken an agricultural course. It is tenable at an agricultural college. One scholarship was awarded in 1919 and one in 1920. University Bursaries. University bursaries are awarded under the University Amendment Act, 1914, on the credit pass in the University Junior Scholarship Examination or on a higher leaving-certificate qualification, and entitle the holders to exemption from the payment of tuition and examination fees (not exceeding £20 per annum) during a three (or possibly four) years' course at a University college or school of agriculture recognized by the University. The number of University bursars in 1919 was 450, as compared with 291 in the previous year, and the amount expended on their tuition and examination fees was £7,034, the cost per head being £17 17s. Educational Bursaries. Educational bursaries are awarded under the Education Act, 1914, and any matriculated student is entitled to one who is a " teacher " as defined in the Education Act or undertakes to serve as a teacher for three years, and who — (i.) Has within the six months immediately preceding satisfactorily completed his term of service as a. pupil-teacher or probationer, and declares his intention of entering a recognized training college on the completion of the tenure of his bursary; or (ii.) Has satisfactorily completed his course of training at a recognized training college and gained a trained-teacher's certificate; or (iii.) Has otherwise gained a teacher's certificate of a class not lower than Class C. These bursaries are tenable for three years, with possibly two yearly extensions, at a University college or recognized school of agriculture. The classes taken must be such as to form part of the course in arts, science, or agriculture, and proof of satisfactory progress must be given. An amendment made in the regulations in 1919 makes it necessary for a person receiving a bursary either to be a teacher in a public primary, secondary, technical, or departmental school, or to promise to serve as such for three years. The number of educational bursars in 1919 was seventy-four (as compared with forty-two in 1918), of which number seven completed the three years' tenure of their bursaries. The amount expended on tuition and examination fees on account of educational bursaries was £698 10s., the cost per head being £9 Bs. 9d. Domestic-science Bursaries. Domestic-science bursaries tenable at the Otago University may be awarded under the Regulations for Manual and Technical Instruction. Applicants for the bursaries must have been resident in the Dominion for not less than twelve months, and must hay (1.) Passed the Matriculation Examination or some other examination approved for the purpose; or (2.) Obtained at least a partial pass in the examination for the Class I) teachers' certificate; or (3.) Gained a higher leaving-certificate or, in the case of pupil-teachers or probationers, a lower leaving-certificate.