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THE report of the British Council for the year ended March 31, 1948, refers to the withdrawal of its activities from Iceland, Switzerland, French North Africa, Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay and the closing of institutes and provincial offices in Belgium, the Netherlands, the Argentine, Colombia, Chile and Peru. To meet the reduction in funds for 1948-49 from £3,500,000 in 1947-48 to £3,150,000, further reductions in services such as books, drama and films are also being made. During the year, however, the educational work of the Council has steadily developed. It has continued to secure or to recommend British candidates for posts in foreign universities, and forty-two posts, mostly professorships and lectureships, are now subsidized and filled by the Council, and of these ten were filled in 1947-48. The Council has also assisted in the recruitment of suitably qualified staff from Britain for British and foreign schools in many countries overseas, and during the year launched a new scheme of bursary awards designed to bring to the United Kingdom persons who would not normally qualify to obtain scholarships but who, being actively engaged in industry or professional work, would benefit from a short stay in Great Britain and from mixing with those of like occupations.
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British Council Annual Report. Nature 162, 587 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162587a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162587a0