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FOR the current academic year, 248 graduates and others of like status from overseas have been awarded British Council scholarships, which enable them to take a wide range of post-graduate courses of study in British universities and similar institutions. The scholarships are normally for one year, but extensions are granted in suitable cases. In addition, the Council has helped to place many students who have come to Britain under the auspices of overseas authorities or privately. The Council has this year established a Students' Welfare Department to deal with the reception and non-academic welfare of scholarship holders, and to help them to gain a general knowledge of British life and institutions. To this end vacation courses, which enable those residing in London to visit the provinces and vice-versa, as well as term-time talks, discussions, shows of documentary films and other events are arranged. These facilities are available also to students sponsored by the Colonial Office, the Indian and Sudan Governments, and to other overseas students. Scholarship holders this year have come from some fifty Empire and foreign countries. The awards are for various subjects, including agriculture and agricultural sciences (6), engineering and mining (15), sciences and technology (50).
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British Council Scholarships, 1946-47. Nature 159, 124 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159124b0
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