Educational Bursaries Regulations




Dec. 18.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE 2961

(iii.) He has satisfactorily completed his course of training at a recognized training college and has been issued a trained teacher’s certificate:

(b.) He has not already passed the examination for a university degree:

(c.) He is not in receipt of a salary of £300 or more per annum, in the case of an unmarried applicant, or of £350 or more per annum in the case of a married applicant:

(d.) He is a matriculated student of the University of New Zealand or has passed the Matriculation Examination:

(e.) He has been resident in New Zealand for one year immediately preceding the date of application for a bursary:

(f.) He has been recommended by the Senior Inspector of an education district as being worthy of holding a bursary:

(g.) He has entered, by his parent or guardian or some other person approved by the Director, into a bond to repay the amount paid in allowances and fees in respect to his bursary in case he should fail to complete satisfactorily the prescribed course or fail to complete in New Zealand within the required time such term of service as is herein prescribed in a public school, secondary school, or technical school, or kindergarten school under a free kindergarten association recognized by the Education Department for purposes of subsidy, or in any school under the control of the Department, or in a university college. The bond shall be in the form supplied by the Department, and shall provide—

(i.) In the case of a bursar qualified under paragraph (i) of clause 1 (a) hereof, for a teaching service of not less than three years to be completed within five years after the termination of the bursary; and

(ii.) In the case of a bursar qualified under either paragraph (ii) or (iii) of clause 1 (a) hereof, for a teaching service of not less than two years, to be completed within three years after the completion of the term of service prescribed under the Regulations for Training Colleges, or after the termination of the bursary, whichever is the later.

  1. A bursary shall not be awarded to nor held by a person who is engaged in teaching in any school or college other than those prescribed in subclause (g) of the last preceding clause hereof.

  2. An application for a bursary must be on the form provided, and must be addressed to the Senior Inspector of Schools of the district, to be forwarded by him, with any recommendation that he may have to make, to the Director. Such application must reach the Senior Inspector by the 1st day of March in any year, and must be accompanied by the necessary certificates.

  3. The term of a bursary shall be three years if the holder so long fulfils the prescribed conditions; provided that under special circumstances the Director may extend the bursary for a fourth year:

Provided further that in cases where university tuition fees have been paid with respect to a Training College Studentship, then the tenure shall, except in special cases approved by the Director, be limited to such period as will give an aggregate of three years’ free tuition.

  1. A bursary may be held at any university college. The classes taken must be such as form part of a course in Arts or Science.

  2. A bursary must be held continuously, except in case of illness or special circumstances approved by the Director.

  3. An Educational Bursary shall not be tenable with or after the tenure of a University Junior Scholarship, a University National Scholarship, or any other scholarship, exhibition, or bursary, or combination thereof, which may have been granted for the purpose of assisting the holder in obtaining university education, and the value or combined value of which (exclusive of any lodging-allowances received) exceeds £20 per annum.

  4. There shall be paid to or on behalf of each holder of a bursary the amount of the fees payable by him to the university college in respect of such classes as the Director, after consultation with the Professorial Board, shall approve for him:

Provided that if the college fees payable by any holder in any one year be more than £20 in all, the sum of £20 only shall be paid to or for such holder in respect of such fees:

Provided also that, except in special cases approved by the Director, not more than one year’s fees shall be payable with respect to any subject at the same grade.

  1. Unless the Chairman of the Professorial Board, by report at the end of each year, shows to the satisfaction of the Director that the holder of a bursary has regularly attended the classes in the said Arts or Science


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VUW Te Waharoa PDF NZ Gazette 1924, No 85


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