HC Deb 22 June 1961 vol 642 c159W
81. Mrs. White

asked the Minister of Education what offers of assistance were made by the representatives of Her Majesty's Government at the recent United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation conference at Addis Ababa on African education.

Mr. K. Thompson

The purpose of the Addis Ababa conference was to draw up a schedule of educational needs in tropical Africa and a plan to meet them. During the conference the United Kingdom delegation proposed the formation of a mobile development group which would bring to bear on the problems of educational building in Africa the techniques which have been so successful in this country since 1949. An announcement was made of the Government's offer to provide a leader for this development group and to finance the appointment for a period to be agreed with U.N.E.S.C.O.