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GRANTS FROM THE HIGHER EDUCATION ALLOCATION UNDER THE COLONIAL
DEVELOPMENT AND WELFARE ACT.
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(1) In accordance with the recommendations of the report of the Asquith Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies and on the advice of the Colonial University Grants Advisory Committee, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, with the concurrence of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, has decided to adopt procedures for grants from the Colonial Developrent and Welfare Vote to universities, university colleges and potential university colleges in Colonial territories which will allow the fullest financial freedom to these institutions consistent with his responsibilities under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act.
(2)
Grants from the funds which have been allocated to the development of higher education in the Colonies will be made by means of schemes made
Grants by the Secretary of State with the concurrence of the Treasury.
under such schemes will be paid directly to and administered by an individual University or College only when it is established as a body corporate empowered to hold and administer funds. It will be a condition of direct grants made in this way that the institution should;-
(3.)
(a) include on its Governing Body or on its Finance Sub-Committee persons with administrative and financial experience, selected from among officials of the Colonial Government (or Governments) and other suitably qualified members of the local community;
(b) include in its administrative staff an officer qualified by training and experience for financial administration;
(c) make satisfactory arrangements for audit under the Director General of Colonial Audit or by some other means acceptable to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and His Majesty's Treasury;
(d) where large-scale works are to be undertaken appoint a qualified architect and establish satisfactory machinery for the award and supervision of contracts and for their execution (for the time being, such machinery would normally include consultation with the Crown Agents for the Colonies.)
Each grant from the higher education allocation, whether for capit or for recurrent purposes, will in itself be a final maximum and will not convey in any way whatever a claim or expectation by the recipient institution for further grants from the same source to meet deficiencies arising in the carrying out of the purposes for which the grant is given.
(4) Grants for capital purposes from the higher education allocation will be based on plans and estimates approved by the Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies and the Colonial University Grants Advisory Committee.
(5) Durin the currency of the Act, where a grant is made towards the recurrent expenditure of an institution it will normally be made for a period of three or five years. Such a grant would be towards the recurre expenditure envisaged in the institutions estimates and would not be intended as an indirect contribution to such purposes as the accumulation of an endowment fund, reserves or surplus balances.. Grants will be made on the advice of the Inter-University Council and the Colonial University Grants Advisory Committee, who will naturally be influenced in their
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