SECRET considered that the course was long enough, but that students might be induced to work harder if, by qualifying, they obtained greater financial benefit. Before the war, a student had paid his own training expenses, with the result that, if he did not qualify and so did not receive the grant of £150 for a 1st Class Interpretership or a reduced sum for a 2nd Class Interpretership, he was out of pocket. Under the present system, there was little financial inducement for him to qualify. MR. SHAW said that the Foreign Office had found that the award system had offered little incentive to officers to qualify in foreign languages, and they had therefore introduced a system of allowances whereby an officer having qualified in a foreign language got £100 a year for as long as he was using that language.