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THE British Council has introduced a scheme under which travel grants are awarded to facilitate interchange of university teachers and scholars between the Commonwealth countries and the United Kingdom. Thirty-nine such awards have been made for the current year. The scheme has been established as the result of discussions which took place at the first post-war congress of universities of the Commonwealth held last year at Oxford. The grants, which may bemade to assist travel to or from the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries, are awarded for two purposes. Grants are made to university teachers on study leave and to postgraduate research workers, holding research grants, who intend to work for at least six months in another university. Priority is given to the first of these categories. Grants are also made to enable distinguished scholars and scientific men to accept invitations for short visits to other universities. The scheme is administered by the British Council in collaboration with the Association of Universities of the British Commonwealth. The first awards were made in March this year to enable Lord Eustace Percy, Sir Raymond Priestley and Prof. J. Dover Wilson to take part in the celebrations which marked the granting of a charter to the University of Natal. The awards for the year include grants to four other distinguished scholars from the United Kingdom, three of whom will go to Canada and one to Australia in September and October this year. Awards have also been made to thirty-two university teachers and postgraduate research workers as follow: Australia, 11 ; India, 2 ; New Zealand, 7 ; Pakistan, 3 ; South Africa, 6 ; united Kingdom, 3.
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Commonwealth and United Kingdom Universities Interchange Scheme. Nature 164, 399–400 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164399d0
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