The major reorganization of the values of studentships took place in 1962. The 1962 reorganization was based on the report of a committee set up by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research under the chairmanship of Sir Eric Ashby. All the ‘self-financing’ students from overseas were being supported by their families whereas the home students had money from a variety of sources - from part-time teaching or other jobs outside the university, from their husbands, wives and parents, and from interest on investments. In the USA the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, with the assistance of the National Opinion Research Center, carried out a postal survey of the expenses and finances of graduate students in the spring of 1965. One indicator of the student’s standard of living is the proportion of his income absorbed by the basic expenses of rent, fuel and food.