HC Deb 04 December 1961 vol 650 c128W
Mr. Willey

asked the Minister of Education how many students were bestowed awards by local education authorities in respect of attendance at courses at universities or colleges outside Great Britain and Northern Ireland during each of the last three years.

Sir D. Eccles

The returns made by local education authorities do not give a separate figure for awards to students attending universities or colleges outside Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In reply to a special inquiry from the Anderson Committee (Report, Appendix 3, Table (i)), authorities said that in 1958–59 they were giving 273 awards to students attending universities not in receipt of grant from the University Grants Committee.

It is known that 37 of these students were at Queen's University, Belfast; a few may have been at St. David's College, Lampeter. The remainder must have been at universities outside the United Kingdom.

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