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The report of the Board of Management, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, dated December 1946, covers the seven years since July 25, 1939 (from the Commission, 1 Lowther Gardens, London, S.W.7). The award of industrial bursaries was discontinued on the outbreak of war, and in, July 1946 only seven of the twenty-nine bursars appointed in 1939 and none of those appointed earlier remained on the books. While the Board has already given “rehabilitation” grants to a few bursars who wished to complete their industrial training and who have been unable to obtain assistance for this purpose under the regulations of the Ministry of Labour and National Service, the Board has resolved to suspend the scheme for the present and to re-examine the position when industry in Great Britain and its pattern of recruitment have acquired a more definite -pattern. The Board has, however, increased to £500 a year the value of the post-graduate scholarship in naval architecture, and new regulations have been prepared which will open the field to candidates from all university institutions in the United Kingdom which have departments of naval architecture or engineering science. The scholarship will be tenable normally for two years, and the conditions have been designed to make it attractive to the trained research worker. Arrangements have also been made for the partial resumption of the activities of the British School at Rome, and discussions on the re-development plan for the South Kensington estate have been renewed. Certain modifications in the plan have become necessary in view of the urgent importance of extending the Fuel Technology Laboratory already on the site to the west of the Royal College of Music, and which the Imperial College of Science and Technology had originally proposed to relinquish.
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Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851. Nature 160, 254 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160254c0
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