Bulletin Vol. 3 No. 3 Oct 1966

C ommo n w e a l th Scholarships are intended to p r o v i de o p p o r t u n i t i es for overseas stud y to y o u ng graduates of h i gh intellectual promise who may be expected to make a significant c o n t r i b u t i on to their o wn countries on their r e t u r n. T h e awards are n o rma l ly tenable for t wo years at the universities or other institutions of higher learning in the awarding country. Awa r ds for undergraduate study may also be made where facilities are inadequate for post-graduate study. Moreover ， some C ommo n w e a l th countries have instituted V i s i t i ng Fellowships n o r ma l ly for senior scholars of established reputation and achievement. A c c o r d i ng to a recently published report of the C ommo n w e a l th Ed u c a t i on Liaison Comm i t t e e, mo re than 1,000 students f r om all parts of the C ommo n w e a l th held C ommo n w e a l th Scholarships d u r i ng the year e n d i ng M a r ch 31, 1966. T h u s the target figure envisaged at the start of the scheme six years ago and reached for th e first t i me in 1964/65 was exceeded again. T h e Report indicates that some expansion of this scheme i s n ow in train. As part of the B r i t i sh c o n t r i b u t i on to the plan, a f u t h er 100 awards have been made available f o l l ow i ng discussion at the Commonwealth Me d i c al Conference in E d i n b u r gh last year, specially for medical postgraduates seeking specialized t r a i n i ng in B r i t a i n. M o s t o f the 1,013 awa r d - h o l d i ng scholars came f r om the developing countries i n c l u d i n g 180 f r om I n d i a, 82 f r om Pakistan, 53 f r om Nigeria and 49 f r om Ceylon. Howe v e r, there were sizable contingents from" the older C ommo n w e a l th countries suc h as Canada, Australia and Britain. O f the 1,013 scholars, 506 held awards in B r i t a i n , 294 in Canada, 80 in Australia, 61 i n I n d ia and 28 in N e w Zealand, w i t h smaller numbers i n another nine awa r d i n g countries. T h e re is at present a ver y great d ema nd for overseas awards i n the developing countries. T h e scholarships covered a very w i de range of subjects. T h e re was a good balance between different areas of study. Ne a r ly 2 5% of the scholars were concerned w i t h pure science, a f u r t h er 2 0% wo r k ed in the field of technology, wh i le social studies and arts together accounted for more than 4 0%. Over three quarters of the scholars were candidates for higher degrees. T h e n umb er and range of awards of senior fellowships had increased steadily, and some 27 fellows received award s in five countries d u r i ng the year. En q u i r i es about n om i n a t i on o f candidates and the award of scholarships or fellowships in any country should be addressed to the local agency; enquiries about the Plan as a whole should be addressed to the Association of C ommo n w e a l th Universities or the C ommo n w e a l th Ed u c a t i on Liaison U n i t , both at Ma r l b o r o u gh House, Pall Ma l l, L o n d o n, S .W. 1. STAFF PROFILES Dr. Helen Hinze Pocher D r . Pocher, F u l b r i g ht L e c t u r er in En g l i sh at T h e Chinese Un i v e r s i t y, received her B . A. in B r o o k l yn College, her M . A . at the Un i v e r s i ty of Wisconsin, and her E d . D. at the Un i v e r s i ty of California at Berkeley. A t present she is on leave f r om San Francisco State College, California, where she is an Associate Professor of English and Speech. She was appointed at San Francisco State College in 1955 after she had held teaching appointments at Mo n t a na State Un i v e r s i t y, Un i v e r s i ty of Wisconsin, Un i v e r s i ty of Illinois, and B r o o k l yn College. D r . Pocher has had ma ny publications in the field of language development an d learning, and psycholinguistics. She is n ow assigned to the Un i v e r s i t y 's School of Education. Professor Anthony M. Tang Professor A n t h o n y M . T a n g was b o r n in Shanghai, China, and is n ow a naturalized U . S. citizen. He attended L ' U n i v e r s i té L ' A u r o re in Shanghai as a C i v il Engineering student and received his B . B . A. degree i n 1949 f r om L o y o la Un i v e r s i ty of N ew Orleans and his P h . D. in Economics in 1955 from Va n d e r b i lt Un i v e r s i t y, Nashville, Tennessee. His doctoral thesis on ‘ ‘ T he Ec o n om ic De v e l o pme nt of Southern U n i t ed States w i th Particular Reference to A g r i c u l t u r e" w o n a prize f r om the Ame r i c a n F a r m E c o n om ic Association as one of three best P h . D. theses w r i t t en in U . S. in 1959. Professor T a n g 's major undergraduate study areas were A c c o u n t i ng and International T r a d e; his major graduate study areas were Statistics, Economic T h e o r y, A g r i c u l t u r al Economics, International Economics, and I n t e r n a t i o n al Relations. Professor T a n g has an outstanding teaching experience lasting eleven years in the fields of A g r i c u l t u re and Ec o n om ic De v e l o pme n t, Soviet E c o n om ic Development ， and Statistics. H is research interest is in agriculture and economic developmen t dealing w i t h the Southern U n i t ed States , Japan, and Ma i n l a nd China. Quantitative studies in the economics of race d i s c r i m i n a t i on and of education and research are also amo ng his special interests . Professor T a n g is a memb e r of the Ame r i c an Economic Association ( A E A ), Ame r i c an F a rm Economic Association, Southern E c o n om ic Association, T h e E c o nme t r ic Society, and the Society for I n t e r n a t i o n al De v e l o pme n t. He has also served on ma ny national committees such as the A E A A d v i s o ry Comm i t t ee to the U . S. Censu s Bureau, 1960-62; the A E A Policy Board for the Economics Institutes, 1963-68; Program Comm i t t ee of the Ec o n ome t r ic Society, 1966. D u r i ng 1963-66’ he was an editor of the Southern Economic Journal. 9