EDUCATION CHANGES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 370, 26 February 1937, Page 5

EDUCATION CHANGES

NATIONAL BURSARIES UNIVERSITY AWARD. New Regulations Provide For Generous Scale. Press Association—Copyright. Wellington, Last Night. In a statement issued to-day the Minister of Education, the Hon. P. Fraser, announced the introduction of a number of important alterations in the system of the award of University National Bursaries for 1937 and following years. The general effect of the new regulations is to provide for the award of bursaries on a much more generous scale than during the last four years and also to make provision for granting boarding allowances on certain grounds (chiefly those of distance from a University College or from hardship).

The new regulations provide for two kinds of national bursaries, namely, ordinary bursaries and boarding bursaries. The ordinary bursary will provide the holder to free university tuition in an approved course of study up to a maximum of £2O a year and the boarding bursary will entitle the holder to an annual boarding allowance up to a maximum of £3O, in addition to the payment of tuition fees not exceeding £2O annually. The currency of the' bursary is to be three years, but provision has been made for an extension in certain circumstances, and in the ca.se of a medical student the normal term of the bursary will be four years. Ordinary bursaries may be awarded to the holders of higher leaving certificates and boarding bursaries will be awarded to applicants selected in the order of merit on the results of the University Entrance Scholarship examination. There will be no limit to the number of ordinary bursaries awarded in any one year, but the regulations provide for a total of 65 boarding bursaries annually. Forty of these will be awarded to students obliged to live away from home and the remainder to university town students in need of monetary assistance to enable them to prosecute their studies.

This year applications for ordinary bursaries will be accepted from all holders of higher leaving certificates, whether awarded during 1936 or not, and applications for boarding bursaries may similarly be made this yea)by all qualified by the examination during any one of the last five years.