REDUCTION OF BURSARIES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20179, 6 March 1931, Page 10

REDUCTION OF BURSARIES.

A GENERAL PROTEST, OVER 500 STUDENTS AFPECTSP* United protest from the ft>ur ■ U&i* versity Colleges against the 'restrictions impospd by the Government on. the amount of fees payable on behalf of bursary holders will bff Jttada if the 'sugi gestion of'the chairman of the Canter- , bury College !Poard> of • Governors, tho Hon. G. J. Smith, is' acted upon by the other colleges. 1 The of authorities interviewed yesterday was that the change watt .unjust in that it had not been announced until plans had been made for the year both by students and the. colleges, and both had committed themselves to certain expenditure for the year. The restriction applies equally r tp. au forms of bursary, engineering, architectural, agricultural, home-ecience, educational, and to Training College students, according to a telegram' received yesterday by tho Eector of Canterbury College, Dr. J. Hight. The position now is, not that the amount of fees payable under the bursaries is reduced, £jf<l?n, to £lO, but that the Government will pay only half these fees with a mum payment of £lO. * ' .■ Hardship Likely. _ ' The new statement of the terjns ( Of the reduction moaftfl thatno bursary holder, no matter bow timaU'. the .total amount of fees payable by him, can have the whole,sum payabje -Spy ' bursary, In the' case of a ta^t" ing two 1 pass. grade arts/subjects (the

permissible to -finable 111111 t0 got a section of liis degrps) the fees at Canterbury College amount to £lO 10s, but pf this sum he will ijimself have-'to 'pay £5 sa, The majority o* arts students do more than £20.(1. ytiar, "but engaged on the science, ana sometime# on .the various courses *jriggujfl,rly have to pay -mucn large? sums. Bursary, holders among the arts'fitudents w£<? * n tb'e had practically all" thenrfe§| paid, ,B®# among tho other?, who? Jjjjkyp <tepfjvcd> £2O of. theift toj;al, -.to-tapd' with a' considerable unexpected extra pay'nnt> <*\« l** ■>• . • The, number '&«;Btud?nts affected at Canterbury Qgllege tfUi bo about 50 pujF cent, of the total, or overMjOM >id. of last year's ea,roHapnt pf 110Q, statfMt the registrar, Mr -'pf Q, ..Kemp. He Mi no idea what the -be, for.it affected not • stui 'dents, who had made and enrolled'for courses, expecting'# continu' I fi|tion'of % former conditions, but,dip the- CoUega itself, which had made it* plans for the year, "in terms <>f :|h,ep normal Receipt of fees. If the students were compelled to -*e"M»ijs meat', of fto^ l jr^/- ! 'would lose considerable revenue. * * !''.%■ ;•> ' 7o>. " . ,- •%

A Complete Surprise. "The annbdboentftnl frMp- tiifc yep&rlt*' mcnt. cajneu,;«ia of the OwiwH L.uiy College. "The decision to jedpco the amount ~ payable "should' tiadu earlier. At th«v 3ats, stage it plaws many students in Tf i «ry pbsition: asL, h,u e n«,!^«a fendance at'j asfjSsfeyeaV;"' . TjiafesSffw I'tl, ,"The effect of.;tlie tier the Board; of q^'eij&ip.;,A ! re r diction have been liave dents, yhoi irt, havfe shown th«r Up -ra»We the lmte pfAhi^Wir titled that hb n?r't>f;-,Jbhe' ;nounl!»fl"'ear%r- it i^S'AKSSE.'teiSStffiS

.d*msnd. ;for f jfoawgy * dent's.WlV-havSjtp he ready been at work-fo* a yeqylor.ttwcfi, ■"dents have' to MufijjfttfiJ ' ■work will bo wasted, while .'the new wilf'j»e»ly pr*wMfra|t: 5 parting. a t iiaivi«it^} , e^sf.-^V i v t ;; 'J -i i K TimmiHiM 'towSttfiri. iln -Vv-Ji! , "Those, who ' !oa-.their epujrsas; havSlnlf . > s%ry,', b&tfeflfcs -in .the pftitf is&6uld'>e 1 remitted to coinplolo tneilr-tenure ipuhr the former' a?rtngah(e(nt;B^r»')3,t' 4gatt : ' principle • ihit>^en i^ l jlft' I fo . lation is the or!giaaJ uonaitinnß blioiiU lie es* the 1 flto*g(Wlty* k V'isame principles ohould apply in tftjs waiter, ef hurearies," T V*v- * la the pa*t tejj, tho buraarleb hate been grad*ally limited. Folrmprly thejs not only, ■for-lecture ¥ege, btit ,aiw .fbr/^aau^r tiop iopn, bMt this drawn in ip?d. foraur jenra #l«i» at fourth .tenure, .Wirß^ry< (ih« legMlition term being three >«&*») w*# ,gr{u?fced ,to '-.ttfl. bursary; holder,, bvt-,thifl. h grant.' 'V" 1, gradually ,be«OJpe- m,ore,'diiQ.C)i|t \<i, fth-i \The <■payment q£ i.f<iea\for l iflg CpJloge nature to'the uiilvartiity•'^hrsfttips,'V. different in ita for theew-'ptiir aents obtain payment of. .her ■fees uulisi their' courqss are approved by tho Piincjpal of tho Training OclrSi^SsSSa *» ,l fit* I*l 1 * 1 - t f j Tlf,l pj ct^n .foi*«r»J Pointy, betwrVn StJ-Wfctfott.is' well' thd CpTuvriy "briijgoj^nd ll t iiisf- ,iu- w nrhnig a{ the mouth-oi thw"