EMPIRE STUDENTS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17121, 16 April 1921, Page 14

EMPIRE STUDENTS.

A POPULAR COURSE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) '• LONDON, Febmary 24. It is only a term and ». (half since Cambridge .started its Ph.D. course bat already 72 students are taking it The Board of Research Studies of Cambridge University has made a first report to the Senate on the working of; the scheme of research courseß open' to the.' graduates of all universities, and leading uplto the new degree of Phuo- . Bopihiae Doctor. . .. •i: , The original idea was specially to attract graduates from the Domimons and the United Sta.tes, and of. the 39 students who have come from outside the United Kingdom, . Canada, has sent seven, Australia five, South Africa two,. New Zealand two, and the _ United States six. There are ten Indian students, one. student from Zurich, arid one from Japan. It is tlhought quite likely that a dumber of students hrom overseas may do the research work without actually_ taking tho Ph.D. course, and active measures will be 'taken shortly to bring the research ..schepae to tpe. , notice of Canadian and American universities. / , The Board's, report gives evidence tlhat the high gtandard which Cambridge must insist on is being maintained in the courses of study, fourteen of the Btudents ere graduates of Cambridge itself—an indication that tho degree is neither exotic nor cheap. Up to tlhe present, also; for every applicant admitted four or five have been refused. It is intended: to keep up the high standard and to make tne degree course the most important of its kind in the Emia understood that further research courses pf two years are being planned to lead up to tho degrees of M.Litt. and M.Sc., which may be awards cd either with the Ph.D. or separately. The students are distributed among 18 colleges, and 12 are non-collegiate. The subjects chosen for research are ol' great variety, and they are evenly divided be.tween scientific and literary subjects.