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APPENDIX IX.GRANTS OF MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCES TO STUDENTS FOR TRAINING IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.The Industrial Research Council has now ceased to exist and has been replaced by the Institute for Industrial Research and Standards which is empowered by the Industrial Research and Standards Act, 1946, to provide scholarships and other awards for the training of persons in industrial research with the approval of the Minister. Classes of Students entitled to Grants. During the period of the Industrial Research Council, maintenance allowances were awarded to students who having already taken a primary degree, were in a position to make full use of the facilities for training in scientific research which were offered by the Universities. The allowances were not awards of the nature of scholarships but were intended to make it possible for students to defer taking paid work. Awards were made by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, on the recommendations of the Industrial Research Council following consideration by its scholarships Committee of applications received. Conditions relating to Grants. A student to whom a grant was awarded was required to devote his whole time, except during reasonable vacation, to training in research during the period covered by the grant. It was required in addition that should he not be competent to deal with scientific literature in French or German he should take a course in one of those languages. The grant was payable in four equal instalments on receipt of a certificate from the student’s Supervisor that the work of the student had been in every way satisfactory. Before the final instalment was paid the Supervisor had, in addition, to certify that arrangements were being made for the preparation of the student’s report. If any award or emolument other than this grant was received by a student, the Minister was informed in order that the question of revising the grant might be considered. At the end of the period covered by the grant the student was required to submit to the Minister a report upon his work drawn up by himself on the usual lines of a degree thesis. Particulars of the Grants made in 1945/46. The grants paid in the financial year 1945/46 covered the last half of the Academic year 1944/45 and the first half of the Academic year 1945/46. Four Grants at the rate of £100 per annum and one at £80 per annum were made in the former period and five at £100 per annum, six at £80 per annum and one at £20 per annum in the latter period. (Signed) JOHN LEYDON, Secretary, Department of Industry and Commerce. 19ú Meitheamh, 1947. |
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