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my predecessor, wrote to you to launch the new annual FCUSAS questionnaire and comment on some other aspects of the same our scholarships programme. We have delayed sending you the next questionnaire - promised for January - because of the FCOSMS the very late notification of allocations and the heavy burden this has placed on FCOSAS officers in the first part of this year.
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Since taking over as AUS responsible for scholarship programmes I have been impressed by the evident value that almost all of you place on the FCOSAS as a means of achieving both immediate and long term objectives.
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I do not need to tell you that the scholarships budget is under increasingly severe financial pressures. The recent PES round resulted in a cut of £1.5 million in the scholarships budget. This was offset by the injection of an additional £2 million from the ODA to top up allocations in developing countries. Welcome though this was, we still had to make quite deep cuts in allocations to nearly all developed countries.
4. At the risk of being tedious, I have to repeat the message of my predecessors that, when funds are tight, co-sponsorship assumes even greater significance. In the face of our endless exhortations to do more joint funding, I thought you might be interested to know how well we are doing on a global basis. In 1992/93 we were able to deploy £3,992,000 in co-sponsorship funding. For 1993/94 we expect to raise a further half million pounds. Since joint funding was first introduced under the FCOSAS in the mid eighties we have between us raised the very impressive total of £14.53 m. The attached graph shows the picture vividly. I believe this is an achievement of which we can be proud. I am grateful to posts for their efforts and hope you will continue to prospect energetically. Sadly we are no longer in a position to offer matching funding in most cases, but cosponsorship can help stretch what for many of you will be a shrinking budget.
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As you may have heard, the ODA have commissioned a review of their input into the FCOSAS, which is being carried out by a distinguished academic, Sir William
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