STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, EDUCATION, ENGLAND. Board of Education (University Scholarships, England) Regulations, 1925. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS, ENGLAND) REGULATIONS, 1925, DATED JULY 23, 1925, MADE BY THE BOARD OF EDUCATION UNDER SECTION 118 OF THE EDUCATION ACT, 1921 (11 & 12 GEO. 5. c. 51), FOR THE PAYMENT OF GRANTS IN RESPECT OF SCHOLARSHIPS TENABLE BY SCHOLARS FROM SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ENGLAND (EXCLUDING MONMOUTHSHIRE) AT UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONS. 1. The Board may make grants, subject to the conditions prescribed in these Regulations, to assist persons to whom scholarships have been awarded under these Regulations to follow approved courses of study at University Institutions. 2. The courses of study which may be approved are full time courses in subjects other than Agriculture leading up to a Degree in Honours in a University in England or Wales. These courses may be taken (a) at any University in England or Wales or at any College which forms a constituent part of a University in England or Wales; (b) at an incorporated College or School of the University of London; (c) at an approved College for women students at Oxford or Cambridge. 3. Before approving a course of study for any person under these Regulations the Board will require a statement from the Head of the Institution which the applicant proposes to attend showing that the applicant will be admitted to the Institution and is in his opinion qualified to pursue the course of study proposed. 4. In order to be eligible for assistance under these Regulations a candidate must (a) have been nominated by an approved Examining Body as eligible by educational attainments and promise for the award of a scholarship under these Regulations; (b) have satisfied the Board that he needs assistance to 5. The Board are prepared to accept nominations for scholarships from any Examining Body which conducts an examination approved as a Second Examination under the Board's Regulations for Secondary Schools, subject to the submission of a scheme showing the manner in which it is proposed to select candidates for nomination. Such a scheme must provide for the following among other matters: (a) Every candidate nominated for a scholarship must pass in an approved Second Examination, and must in that examination reach such a minimum qualifying standard as will give reasonable expectation that he is capable of following successfully a course of study for a University Degree in Honours. (b) The candidate must (i) at the date of the Examination be a pupil in full-time attendance at a Secondary School in England in receipt of grants from the Board and (ii) be if a boy under 18 years of age and if a girl under 19 years of age on the 31st July preceding the date of the Examination. (c) In choosing between candidates who reach the minimum qualifying standard the Examining Body will take into account (i) the candidate's performance in the Second Public Examination; and (ii) so far as appears to them desirable and practicable, the candidate's school record supplemented by a personal interview. 6. The number of scholarships available annually for award under these Regulations to pupils attending Secondary Schools in England will be 178. The Board will allocate these scholarships among the Approved Examining Bodies after considering the number of candidates entering for each of the Approved Second. Examinations. Each Examining Body will be required to allocate half of its scholarships to boys and half to girls, unless an insufficient number of boys or girls, as the case may be, attains the minimum qualifying standard. 7. Grants may be made to holders of scholarships(a) in aid of the approved fees, and (b) to an amount not exceeding £80 per annum in aid of the maintenance of the student while attending the course. 8. The Board will determine, after considering the recommendation of a University Committee representing the Institution which is prepared to admit the student, the amount of grant, if any, which shall be awarded in each case in aid of fees and in aid of the student's maintenance. In determining the amount of grant account will be taken of the student's private means, of any scholarships or exhibitions held by him, and of the assistance which can reasonably be expected from those persons who would in ordinary circumstances have borne or contributed to the expense of his education. 9. Grants will be payable in respect of the academic year, which will ordinarily be the year running from 1st October to the following 30th September. 10. Grants will ordinarily be payable for three years. They may be extended for a fourth year (a) in cases in which the normal period for the course followed by the student is at least four years; or (b) in other cases, for a course of study approved by the Board on sufficient evidence of special attainments supported by a recommendation from the Authorities. of the University Institution. 11. Grants in aid of fees will normally be payable to the Institution, and grants in aid of maintenance will normally be payable to the student through the Head of the Institution or through some person nominated for the purpose by the Institution. 12. When the Board have made an award, the first instalment of grant will be payable on receipt of a certificate from the Head of the Institution that the student is attending the course approved for him. Subsequent instalments will be payable at suitable intervals as may be arranged with each Institution, but all payments will be dependent on the receipt of certificates of attendance, satisfactory conduct and progress. 13. The Head of the Institution will be required to submit at least once a year a detailed report on the educational progress and (so far as it is within his knowledge) the financial circumstances of each student to whom an award is made. 14. A student to whom an award is made will be required to communicate to the Board particulars of any improvement which takes place in his financial circumstances after the date of application for an award, and any failure to comply with this requirement may involve forfeiture of the award. 15. The award to any student may be revised or cancelled if the Board think proper, having regard to the circumstances of the case. 16. No grant will be payable under these Regulations on account of any student for whom a grant is payable under the Regulations for the Training of Teachers (a) or under the Regulations for Awards in Science. (b) (a) S.R. & O. 1923, No. 37. (b) S.R. & O. 1925, No. 719. 17. If any question arises as to the interpretation of these Regulations, or as to the payment of grant under them, or as to the amount of grant, the decision of the Board shall be final. 18. These Regulations may be cited as the Board of Education (University Scholarships, England) Regulations, 1925. Given under the Seal of Office of the Board of Education this 23rd day of July, 1925. (L.S.) Aubrey V. Symonds, Secretary to the Board of Education. Sir, I am directed by the Minister of Health to state that, whilst appreciating the value of the medical services rendered in the institutional treatment of persons suffering from tuberculosis by Poor Law Authorities, he desires to make certain suggestions by the adoption of which it seems to him practicable to secure improvement in the present arrangements. In particular, the Minister desires to emphasize the desirability of close co-operation between the Poor Law Authorities and the King Edward VII. Welsh National Memorial Association, who, as the Guardians are no doubt aware, undertake, on behalf of the several Local Authorities in Wales and Monmouthshire, a general national scheme for the institutional treatment of tuberculosis. It is understood that, in the case of some Poor Law institutions it is the practice for the tuberculosis physician of the Welsh National Memorial Association to visit the institution on request, but the Minister considers that there is much advantage in the course which has already been adopted by other Boards of Guardians of appointing the appropriate Tuberculosis Physician or Physicians as consultants upon the Staff of the Poor Law Institution. It will be borne in mind that the tuberculosis dispensaries of the Association are the centres from which the supervision and care of tuberculous patients when not inmates of a residential institution, is undertaken, and that it falls to the Tuberculosis Physician of the dispensary to consider the suitability of patients under his supervision for residential treatment under the tuberculosis scheme of the Association. By the appointment of the Tuberculosis Physician as consultant at the Institution, co-operation between the dispensary service and the Poor Law service would be facilitated, and the Guardians would have the benefit of the clinical services of an Officer who, in addition to his special qualifications and experience in the diagnosis and treatinent of the disease, would in many cases have a personal knowledge of the medical history of the patient before admission to the Institution, and who will also, as a rule, be responsible for the supervision of the patient if discharged from the Institution. Further, it would appear that, whilst the majority of the cases of pulmonary tuberculosis admitted to Poor Law Institutions are |