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MR. H. A. L. FISHER, President of the Board of Education, speaking at Birmingham on January 31, referred to the support afforded to higher education in the United States and Germany in comparison with that in England. He is reported by the Times to have said that βhe had been looking into the endowments from private sources which have been going to the American universities on one hand, and to the English universities on the other, in recent years. In the period from 1906 to 1917 the American universities received an average of more than four millions annually from private sources, whereas our universities were lucky if they received 200,000l. in one year. Concerning the amount of State help to the universities in Prussia on one hand, and in England and Wales on the other, whereas the Prussian universities receive rather more than a million pounds a year, our universities and technical institutes receive 378,000l. from the rates and taxes combined. The comparison is even more unfair to England than it appears at first sight, because the Prussian figures exclude the endowments of the technical institutions and sums paid by the State to assist the training of teachers.β
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The Endowment of University and Technical Education. Nature 100, 452β453 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/100452a0
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