Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Letter From the Vice-Chancellors of the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Sheffield to the Joint Secretaries of the Committee on Public Retrenchment: 26th August, 1915
The University has also taken a share in the entertainment and education of the Belgian refugees in Sheffield. The Council of the University has allotted two houses belonging to the University for the use of a Belgian Hostel Committee, with a result that accommodation has been found -foi' some eighteen Belgians of the better class. Further, in view of the fact that the great obstacle to the employment of the Belgian refugees was their ignorance of the English language, classes in English have been organised within the University for the purpose of giving instruction in English to such Belgians as might be capable of profiting by it. The number of Belgians who have attended a class for at least one month is 234, the number of teachers (all voluntary) forty - seven, and the number of classes, thirty-three. Attendance at the classes has generally been very regular, and withdrawals have only occurred when the student was leaving the city or had obtained work which prevented him from attending his class.' Several students have obtained work of different kinds as a direct consequence of having attended the classes, and the classes have been specially useful to discharged soldiers. In this way the work of the University has contributed to ease the financial burden upon the city which resulted from the unemployment of a large number of refugees.
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