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THE report of a Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for India to inquire into the system of State technical scholarships established by the Government of India in 1004, has been published as a Blue-book (Cd. 6867). On March 27, 1912, the Secretary of State appointed a Committee βto inquire and report as to the facilities available for Indian students for industrial and technological training in this country, with special reference to the system of State technical scholarships established by the Government of India in 1904.β The Committee was constituted as follows:-Sir Theodore Morison, K.C.I.E. (chairman), Sir K. G. Gupta, K.C.S.I., Mr. J. H. Reynolds, Prof. W. E. Dalby, Mr. P. H. Dum-bell (secretary), Mr. R. E. Field (assistant secretary). The Committee held its first meeting at the India Office on May 9, 1912, for the purpose of discussing the itinerary, and considering questions of procedure. On various occasions the Committee visited Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, and Birmingham, where they received evidence from the higher education authorities, and visited the various laboratories, and so on, devoted to technical education. Altogether during the provincial meetings the Committee took evidence from seventy-five witnesses, of whom twenty-nine were professors and other representatives of the universities and technical colleges, twenty-eight gentlemen intimately connected with various industries as owners and managers of works, &c., and eighteen Indian technical students.
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Technical Education for Indian Students . Nature 91, 599β600 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091599a0
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