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COLONIAL UNIVERSITY GRANTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
S.S.
C. U. G. C./15./47.
GENERAL ALLOCATION.
(Note by Secretary)
The following communication has been received from the Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies.
8, Park Street,
London, W. 1.
27th September, 1947.
WALTER ADAMS.
Secretary.
"In view of the increase from £4 million to £61⁄2 million of the central funds for higher education under the Colonial Development and Welfare Act, the Inter-University Council has reviewed the relative assessment on academic grounds of the claims on these funds which it submitted in December 1946 (C. U. G. C./3/16).
The Council reaffirms its view that on academic grounds it is most important not to attenuate the limited funds at the risk of imperilling standards.
Nevertheless the Council considers that at this initial stage of pinning the proposed university colleges, it is important that the Principals and college authorities should be encouraged to take long-term views and should not cramp the later expansion of the universities by restricting the permanent plan because of financial stringency in the next decade. The Council suggests therefore that 'target' allocations might now be set for the whole of the £6 million for university projects, and that flexibility in the later years of the decade could be achieved by reallocation as changes in spending necessity occur rather than by the retention from the beginning of a fixed reserve.
The Council in attempting to 'weight' the claims has paid due regard to academic necessities but has had to take into account factors other than academic; for example, it could not ignore the fact that capital funds for the university projects are available in the Gold Coast (and probably in Malaya) but are not available in the West Indies. The Council has reconsidered each of the first priority claims on its merits, and reached the following conclusions:·
(a) General.
The sum of £365,000 might be reduced to £265,000 as it has been decided that expatriation allowances can not be introduced in the West Indies.
(b)
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