Cheeseparing
The reduction of ten per cent. in the grants to the Universities Council for Adult Education and the Workers' Educational Association will mean a saving in 1953-1954 of something like £31,700. When the value to the country of this minor economy is compared with the major effect it will certainly have on university extra-mural and W.E.A. classes throughout the country, the pettiness of this decision by the Minister of Education is all the harder to understand or forgive. Only two years ago the Ministry's report was praising the devotion of the tutors engaged in adult education and affirming the high quality of the students' work. Does Miss Horsburgh realise the psychological effect her decision will have on the hard-working' teachers whose value the officials of her Ministry have praised ? Two or three days after the news of the cut, -Dr. Charles Hill announced in the House that the derationing of tea saved £135,000 a year, and that of sweets would save £210,000. Out of £345,000 cannot £31,700 conceivably be spared ?'
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