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THE University Extension movement has hitherto received no assistance in the form of grants from the Government. But now that the movement is recognised as an educational power in the land it should be subsidised to a certain extent. As Prof. Stewart remarked in the course of a speech on the subject, delivered in connection with the summer meeting at Cambridge, “There was no sum of money that could be better spent by the State for educational purposes than a grant, say of £5,000 a year, to the university extension movement, because thereby they would render the £6,000,000 a year paid for elementary education so much more effective and productive, seeing that a very large proportion of university extension students were elementary school teachers.” It was afterwards resolved: “That, in the opinion of this conference of university extension students, application should be made as early as possible to the Education Department for aid to university extension work, particularly for subjects not dealt with by the Technical Instruction Act.”
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University and Educational Intelligence. Nature 48, 358–359 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048358b0
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