Ex-servicemen Students Reported To Be Making Satisfactory Progress

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 30, 16 March 1948, Page 8

Ex-servicemen Students Reported To Be Making Satisfactory Progress

The satisfactory progress of exservicemen students studying with rehabilitation assistance was referred to at the monthly meeting of the Rehabilitation Board by Mr B. Barrington, chairman of the Board's education sub-committee. The majority of ex-servicemen students had passed all the subjects they had sat at last year's examinations, he said. Until the end of January 15,823 ex-servicemen and women had received part-time and full-time educational assistance from the Rehabilitation Board. A further 14,728 renewals had been granted, making a total of 30,552 grants of assistance rendered. There had been 588 exservicemen and women who had been granted overseas bursaries for post-graduate and specialised studies.

By far the largest professional group, post-graduate medicine accounts for almost one-third of the 588 overseas bursaries granted up till the end of January by the Rehabilitation Board. Next come Doctorate of Philosophy (42) and Veterinary Science (35). Other courses taken have been:— Agriculture (11 students), arts degree (33), architecture and town planning (15), accountancy and commerce (33), aerial surveying (1), dental post-graduate (13), dramatic art (7), engineering (26), education (8), forestry (11), aviation (2), fine arts and sculpture (4), horticulture (1), journalism (6), languages (6), law (9), medical auxiliary services (13), mining (1), music (26), nursing (14), optical work (4), public and local administration (6), physical training (16), science, all branches (11), social courses (2), theology (12), trade courses (15), wool courses (12), miscellaneous (16).