HC Deb 16 March 1990 vol 169 cc381-2W
Mr. Speller

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Devon, North of 12 March,Official Report, column 63, if he will list the programmes of technical training and education which are being funded over the next three years in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and the Gambia.

Mrs. Chalker

The information requested is as follows:

Projects

Nigeria:

Current projects:

  • —National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) Project
  • —Federal Technical College Project
  • —Four Polytechnics Project

(The above three current projects are designed to improve the quality of courses offered at polytechnics and to enhance NBTE's management of Nigeria's technical education programme.)

  • —Science Teacher Training Project for Junior Secondary School Teachers
  • —English Language Training Project for university teaching staff (in all disciplines)

the arts provide that, in the event that my right hon. Friend shall give notice of the termination of this agreement in circumstances which include the CTC/CCTA seeking to charge for admission, He shall also give notice that the provisions of section 105(5) shall apply, and set out how the CTC/CCTA is to comply with them".

Under this provision, my right hon. Friend will set out a method and timetable, which the CTC/CCTA company would be required to follow to fulfill the provisions of section 105(5) following the termination of the agreement. No further safeguard is necessary in this respect.