§ Mr. Willeyasked the Minister of Education what progress has been made in implementing the undertaking he gave at the Commonwealth Education Conference in 1959 to send out 400 extra teachers to the developing countries of the Commonwealth.
§ Sir D. EcclesThe undertaking was to encourage the recruitment of 400 additional teachers through financial and other measures.
For the number of posts which it has been agreed to subsidise under this scheme and for the number filled, I would refer the hon. Member to the Answer which my right hon. Friend, the Secretary for Technical Co-operation, gave on 3rd April to the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Mr. G. M. Thomson).
The other measures include a code of secondment, which 142 out of 146 local authorities have now agreed to adopt, and the establishment of the National Council for the Supply of Teachers Overseas. The Council launched a campaign last November to arouse interest in overseas service and to influence the climate of opinion in this country about the value of such service, but it is too early yet to gauge its success.