§ MR. ERNEST GRAY (West Ham, N.)To ask the Secretary to the Board of Education whether the privilege hitherto I granted to National scholars to secure an associateship of the Royal School of Mines in mining and metallurgy has been withdrawn; and, if so, on what grounds.
(Answered by Sir William Anson.) The hon. Member is under a misapprehension in supposing that it is no longer possible for National scholars to secure an associateship of the Royal College of Mines. It is merely required that they 281 should, as a rule, take the division corresponding to the group in which they obtained their scholarships. The change in the regulations, to which the hon. Member refers, was made in 1902, with the object of enabling the Board to control the extent to which the tenure of these scholarships may be transferred to the courses for the associateship of the Royal School of Mines.