HC Deb 29 June 1960 vol 625 cc134-5W
Dr. A. Thompson

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will appoint a small committee to examine the means by which the teaching of living Asian and African languages can be extended, to provide a useful supplement to the curricula of British universities which specialise chiefly in dead oriental languages.

Sir E. Boyle

In December last, the University Grants Committee appointed a Sub-Committee (under the chairmanship of Sir William Hayter, K.C.M.G.) to review developments in the universities in the fields of Oriental, African, Slavonic and East European studies consequent upon the recommendations made in 1947 by the Inter-Departmental Commission of Enquiry, presided over by Lord Scarbrough; and to consider and advise on proposals for future developments.

The University Grants Committee will take account of the Sub-Committee's conclusions in connection with the settlement of the recurrent grants for the universities for the quinquennium of 1962–67.