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Engineering Bursaries. Engineering bursaries tenable for three to five years at any school of engineering and technical science attached to or recognized by a University college may be granted to applicants possessing certain defined qualifications, including the completion of a fairly thorough preliminary course of study of the science of engineering. The bursaries cover the cost of tuition and examination fees, and where necessary a boarding-allowance of £50 per annum. Four such bursaries were held in 1922, the cost of them to the Education Department for the year being £287. War Bursaries. War bursaries tenable at secondary schools, technical schools, and University colleges may be awarded to the dependants of killed or disabled members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces. Such a dependant who is qualified to receive a University bursary or an educational bursary as described above may receive in addition an allowance of £10 per annum, and a boarding-allowance of £30 per annum if obliged to live away from home while attending a University college. Only one such war bursary tenable at a University college has so far been awarded. Workers' Educational Association. The Workers' Educational Association, which works in conjunction with the four University colleges, continued its activities in 1922 with increasingly satisfactory results. Tutorial and preliminary classes are conducted for working men and women in such subjects as economics, psychology, social and industrial history, English literature, English composition, modern history, electricity, and hygiene ; in fact, the association announces its readiness to establish classes in almost any subject for which a sufficient number of students will be forthcoming. Members of the staffs of the University colleges and other highly qualified educationists act as tutors of the classes. Seventy-two classes were held in 1922, with a roll number of 2,500. The Government contributes directly £2,500 per annum to the movement, in addition to which £1,250 paid by the Government out of the National Endowment Fund to the University of New Zealand is devoted to the same object, making a total of £3,750. Voluntary contributions received by the University colleges on account of the association's classes are also subsidized by the Government, the amount paid on this account in 1922-23 being £610.

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