§ Major Owenasked the President of the Board of Education how many pupils have been awarded State bursaries in science on the recommendation of headmasters without having passed the higher certificate; and the names of the schools from which these pupils have been selected?
§ Mr. ButlerThis information cannot be supplied without a disproportionate expenditure of time and labour. Every application for a State bursary was scrutinised by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and other University representatives who, with officers of the Board, were responsible for the selection and allocation of State bursaries, and I am satisfied that the committee's selection was careful and impartial.