HC Deb 17 February 1938 vol 331 c2069
66. Miss Rathbone

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education why women students at Newnham and Girton are not eligible for the four-year training department grants, whereas women at the Oxford colleges receive them?

Mr. Lindsay

Women students at Newnham and Girton are not admitted to the training department of Cambridge University, and are therefore not eligible for the four-year training grants available for students of that department.

Viscountess Astor

Is it right that the Government should give a grant to a university which will not admit women?

Miss Rathbone

Will the hon. Gentleman consider whether, by some change in the regulations, it would not be possible to put the Cambridge women students in a position in which they could take advantage of these grants?

Mr. Lindsay

That is a matter, first, for the University, and then it would be a question for us.