Abstract

THE Vice-Chancellor also spoke encouragingly of the scheme for research in social studies at Oxford made possible by the five-year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation which has now been in operation for a year. An institute of statistics has been started, several research lecturers have been appointed, and promising schemes of combined research in Colonial Government, in politics, in social services, and in economics have been begun. The first year of the experiment has been a great success. Research activity in other humane studies is also increasing remarkably. Since 1931 the number of those working for research degrees in the humane faculties has risen from 145 to 256.

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