REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL STUDIES.

The article focuses on the reports of Heyworth Committee concerned with teaching and research in economics in Great Britain. In 1962-63 the Committee estimates that in all about £5 million was being spent on research in social sciences. Of this, about £2.9 million was financing university research. About £0.6 million was financing independent non-university research institutes. The research organizations of the government absorbed about £10 million. Official support of research in dependent overseas territories, work in technical colleges and by various other bodies and individuals absorbed the final £0.5 million. Of this total, possibly as much as £10 million may have been going to university and institute research in economics, including the research time of teachers. The Committee proposed that 400 awards for postgraduate research and advanced-course studentship should be made in 1965-66 as against about 220 in 1964. It also recommended the creation of 20 research fellowships.