June 30, 192 1] 



NATURE 



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nology, and research were cultivated in numerous 

 institutes and schools outside the universities. 



A new and interesting- feature of the returns is 

 the classification of full-time students according 

 to locality of home residence. The homes of 

 approximately 60 per cent, were within 30 

 miles of the university, of 35 per cent, in other 

 parts of the United Kingdom, of 4 per cent. 

 (1390) within the British Empire overseas, of 

 2 per cent. (646) in foreign countries. The fol- 

 lowing institutions drew a noticeably high per- 

 centage of their students from beyond the 30-mile 

 radius : University of Glasgow (50 per cent.), 

 London Medical Schools (52), King's College 

 Household and Social Science Department (58), 

 Westfield College (61), University Colleges of 

 Galway (62), Dublin (71), Reading (72), Aberyst- 

 wyth (78). Those most frequented by students 

 from outside the United Kingdom are shown in 

 the following list, wherein the first figure (A) 

 represents the total number of such students, and 

 the second (B) the number from foreign couniries : 



University of Edinburgh 



,, ,, Glasgow ... 



,, ,, Aberdeen 



,, ,, Birmingham ... 



,, ,, Liverpool 



Armstrong College 



Royal Technical College, Glasgow . 



College of Technology, Manchester . 



Imperial College of Science and 

 Technology 



London Medical Schools 



London School of Economics 



University and King's Colleges,- 

 London 



176 



75 



54 



It will be noticed that a large proportion of the 

 students from overseas in schools of technology 

 and the London School of Economics were 

 foreigners. 



As regards Oxford and Cambridge and the 

 other university institutions which find no place 

 in these tables, the " Yearbook " does not indicate 

 the sources from which their students are sup- 

 plied, but the Universities Bureau of the British 

 Empire a few months ago collected lists of 

 students from other countries, both British and 

 foreign, studying in the universities and university 

 colleges of the United Kingdom, and it has 

 permitted the publication of the following totals, 

 taken from these lists, of students from (a) the 

 British Empire overseas, (b) foreign countries : 

 Oxford (a) 307, (b) 308; Cambridge (a) 290, 

 (b) 126; Dublin (a) 91, (b) 2; Guy's Hospital 

 Medical School (a) 195, (&) 26. The Oxford 

 figures reflect the influence of the Rhodes 

 Scholarships, which provide for the continuous 

 residence at Oxford of 186 scholars drawn from 

 the United States of America (two from each 

 State), as well as from Canada and Newfound- 

 land, Australasia, South Africa, the West Indies, 

 and Malta. Apart from this, however, Oxford 

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exerts on American students a powerful attrac- 

 tion, as is shown by an analysis of the (b) figures 

 given above. Separating students from the United 

 States of America (c) from other foreign students 

 (d), the totals for Oxford are (c) 217, (d) 91; 

 for Cambridge, (c) 34, (d) 92. Nearly all the 

 students from overseas at Trinity College, Dublin, 

 came from South Africa. 



From the same source the following statistics 

 have been compiled: Students from Asia, 1228; 

 Africa, 1046; Europe, 703; America and the West 

 Indies, 676; the Pacific (Australasia), 282. The 

 countries contributing most largely to these totals 

 are listed below with the distribution of the 

 students to London (a), Oxford and Cambridge 

 {b), Edinburgh (c), and Glasgow {d) : — 



and 



India, Burma, 



Ceylon 



South Africa 



U.S.A 



Australia and Nev 



Zealand 



Eg3pt 



Canada and New 



foundland 

 China 



Japan 



Russia 



Serbs, Croats, and 



Slovenes 

 Rumania 

 France 



Norway 



Greece 



Total («) (/.) (c) 



(rf) 



974 418 200 157 58 

 781 267 15.:; 178 30 

 362 72 251 25 4 



279 50 151 57 

 223 78 13 28 



164 .33 lo^ 



112 36 14 



54 34 7 

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22 

 2 



4 

 4 



I 

 10 



3 



70 



2Z 



75 

 68 

 66 

 62 



32 

 21 

 20 



18 

 3 



II 9 



2 4 



ic 2 3 



8 3 12 



18 I 3 



Of the students from South Africa, 229 were 

 at the London Medical Schools, and 32 at Aber- 

 deen. Of those from Egypt, 51 were at the 

 London Medical Schools, 41 at Manchester and 

 Liverpool, and 39 (24 medical) at Birmingham. 



In future years the Grants Committee will pre- 

 sent a comparative statement showing the 

 number of new entrants who had previously at- 

 tended a secondary school for three years or more,, 

 and the number who commenced their education 

 in a public elementary school. In a few cases 

 this information is given for 1919-20 in the 

 separate chapters devoted to the several institu- 

 tions ; thus the College of Technology, Man- 

 chester, reports that of 286 full-time students 137 

 began their education in a public elementary 

 school. 



" The increasing demand for Halls of Residence 

 and for more facilities for corporate life," says 

 the Committee in its introduction, "makes it 

 important to show the extent to which provision 

 of the kind is made." Accordingly, Table i 

 classi^es students with reference to university 

 residence. Half of them, it appears, lived at 

 home, 37 per cent, in lodgings (22 per cent, of 

 the women and 42 per cent, of the men), and 

 II per cent. (4025) in halls of residence, these 



