Africans (Administration and Education)

HC Deb 26 July 1962 vol 663 cc184-5W

75. Mr. Healey

asked the First Secretary of State what steps he is taking to train Africans in Northern Rhodesia for public administration.

Mr. Longden

asked the First Secretary of State what plans he has for educating and training Africans to enable them to take over as administrators and teachers in Northern Rhodesia.

Mr. R. A. Butler

Under its current Four Year Development Plan the Government of Northern Rhodesia intends to spend nearly a million pounds on the training of locally born staff, and a substantial proportion of this expenditure will be for training Africans in the fields of administration and education.

The plan provides for the completion of the Chalmbana, Charles Lwanga and David Livingstone Teacher Training Colleges and it is intended to establish an Institute of Public Administration.