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IT has been decided to maintain the Government Grant to the Universities and Colleges at the existing level, namely, £2,149,000. In reply to a question in the House of Commons on February 20, Sir John Simon said: "The Government are fully conscious of the vital part played by the universities in the life of the community, and of the importance of maintaining the standards of university education as far as possible in the strained conditions of war. Moreover the universities are making an essential contribution to the national effort at the present time in supplying personnel of the educational standards necessary for many national services, as well as in affording more direct assistance to a number of Government Departments by means of particular researches, the provision of specialized technical equipment in laboratories, and in other ways. I have satisfied myself, after considering the representations of the Vice-Chancellors and the results of a survey of university finance carried out at my request by the University Grants Committee, that the maintenance during the coming financial year of the present provision is necessary if the universities are to continue to make their contribution to the national effort, and the Government therefore earnestly hope that local authorities will take similar action."
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Treasury Grant to Universities. Nature 145, 299 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145299b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145299b0