ENCOURAGING RESEARCH

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5071, 5 January 1927, Page 3

ENCOURAGING RESEARCH

NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS. SUGGESTED REGULATIONS. Prompt effect has been given' by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research to the provisions of the operating Act relative to the establishment of National Research Scholarships, outlining the details of the scheme and defining the method of procedure, have now beep 'framed, •and as Cabinet has approved them it is anticipated that they will be gazetted at an early s

The regulations, adopted by the council make provision for. the. annual award of four national research scholarships to graduates of the New Zealand University or other .qualified persons to enable them to carry on researchjsin any branch of science or economics. A due proportion of the scholarship# will be offered for the purpose of encouraging research in connection with mutters relating to the industries df the Dominion. Each scholarship will be of the value of £lBO per annum, and a grant not exceeding a total of £25 will be made to defray the cost or special apparatus or special books required for the research and the cost of transit while the scholar is engaged on the work. The apparatus and books, however, will remain the property of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. The Scholarship is tenable for one year—at a university college or other institution approved by ths Research Council —but the, tenure may be extended to a second year in special circumstances approved by the Minister.

Each scholar will be required to devote his whole time during the tenure of the scholarship to work connected with the research, unless, under special circumstances., the consent of the Research Council has bee fl i previously obtained. At the end of every three months the student will be obliged to furnish a report of his work ,accompanied by a certificate from the professor or director of the university department or institution concerned that the work has been done to his. satisflaction. No publication of the results of the. research is to be made by the scholar unless the consent Of the Research Couy.cil is obtained ; and the final instalment of the scholarship will not be payable until the detailed report of the results has been made, in a form suitable for publication.

Applications for the scholarship have to be made on the prescribed form and submitted to the secretary of Scientific and Industrial Research not later than February 14 in each year.